Law must impact on society
Gilbert Boyefio
20/11/2006
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Clifford Nii-Boye Tagoe, has expressed the need for the law to be responsive to its environment and march in unison with the pace of development.
He also noted the need to introduce more dynamism into the law course content and re-assess the type of core courses that are offered in the country's university.
Prof Tagoe said these at a two day law conference organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana to commemorate Ghana's Golden Jubilee of independence.
He said the legal system has helped to create an enabling environment for peace and thereby enable law to play a pivotal role in the country's development.
He appealed to the law faculty to make itself more open and accessible to the community or reach out to the community by offering legal aid services to augment the rather weak national legal aid scheme.
Prof Tagoe observed that the faculty of law has contributed immensely to the development of Ghana in particular, and Africa as a whole. He said through the faculty, Ghana's legal system has evolved to an enviable status in Africa. "Ghana has had the opportunity to export legal brains to other African countries to support the setting up and development of their own legal systems", he added.
He said despite the remarkable achievements attained by the law faculty, it is still in need of some significant changes to be abreast with time. He observed that it is time to liaise with other universities and data base companies to have access to legal data bases to create a more rigorous research environment at the law faculty.
He noted that some courses needed to be re-adapted and up-dated to suits today's society. "It is time, for example, to introduce International Law and International Human Rights Law as compulsory courses at the faculty", he said.
In a speech read on his behalf on the theme "Ghana law since independence: history, development and prospects", the Speaker of Parliament, Sekyi-Hughes, said since independence, lawyers and lawmakers have been at the cutting edge of State administration.
He said lawyers are heavily represented in all the branches of government, namely, the Judiciary, Parliament and the Executive. He paid glowing tribute to John Mensah Sarbah, JB Danquah, Ako Adjei and others for the critical role they played as lawyers in the pre-independence struggle for nationhood.
Papers that were presented at conference cover Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Copyright, International Trade and Banking. The rest are Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Civil Obligations, Legal Education, Family Law, Labour Law and Commercial Law.
20/11/2006
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Clifford Nii-Boye Tagoe, has expressed the need for the law to be responsive to its environment and march in unison with the pace of development.
He also noted the need to introduce more dynamism into the law course content and re-assess the type of core courses that are offered in the country's university.
Prof Tagoe said these at a two day law conference organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana to commemorate Ghana's Golden Jubilee of independence.
He said the legal system has helped to create an enabling environment for peace and thereby enable law to play a pivotal role in the country's development.
He appealed to the law faculty to make itself more open and accessible to the community or reach out to the community by offering legal aid services to augment the rather weak national legal aid scheme.
Prof Tagoe observed that the faculty of law has contributed immensely to the development of Ghana in particular, and Africa as a whole. He said through the faculty, Ghana's legal system has evolved to an enviable status in Africa. "Ghana has had the opportunity to export legal brains to other African countries to support the setting up and development of their own legal systems", he added.
He said despite the remarkable achievements attained by the law faculty, it is still in need of some significant changes to be abreast with time. He observed that it is time to liaise with other universities and data base companies to have access to legal data bases to create a more rigorous research environment at the law faculty.
He noted that some courses needed to be re-adapted and up-dated to suits today's society. "It is time, for example, to introduce International Law and International Human Rights Law as compulsory courses at the faculty", he said.
In a speech read on his behalf on the theme "Ghana law since independence: history, development and prospects", the Speaker of Parliament, Sekyi-Hughes, said since independence, lawyers and lawmakers have been at the cutting edge of State administration.
He said lawyers are heavily represented in all the branches of government, namely, the Judiciary, Parliament and the Executive. He paid glowing tribute to John Mensah Sarbah, JB Danquah, Ako Adjei and others for the critical role they played as lawyers in the pre-independence struggle for nationhood.
Papers that were presented at conference cover Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Copyright, International Trade and Banking. The rest are Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Civil Obligations, Legal Education, Family Law, Labour Law and Commercial Law.
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