The President-elect of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law, Isaac Nlason, has appealed to the Independent Examinations Committee (IEC) to introduce a one-time transitional arrangement to allow students with outstanding papers to rewrite them instead of repeating the academic year.
The proposed arrangement is targeted at students affected by the transition to a new legal education system and the planned discontinuation of the existing Professional Law Course (PLC) programme.
In a petition dated August 17, 2026, and addressed to the Chairperson of the IEC, Justice Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei, Mr Nlason requested that Part I students who fail more than two subjects be permitted to resit their outstanding papers rather than repeat the year.
He also appealed for Part II students who fail two subjects to be given the opportunity to rewrite those papers instead of being required to repeat the academic year.
The proposed concession would apply to students enrolled under the current PLC and Post Call Law Course programmes.
Mr Nlason said the request had become necessary because of the exceptional circumstances surrounding the introduction of the new legal education regime, which includes plans to discontinue the existing PLC programme.
He acknowledged the existing examination rules, under which candidates who fail a subject are referred to a supplementary examination, while those who fail half or more of their subjects in an academic year are considered to have failed the entire examination.
He, however, stressed that the petition was not intended to interfere with the authority of the IEC.
“Our request is not intended to question, challenge or undermine the mandate of the Committee,” he stated.
Mr Nlason asked the Committee to consider allowing affected students to resit their outstanding papers within the existing programme so they could continue their studies without losing an academic year.
For Part II students, he appealed for the supplementary examinations to be organised early enough to enable successful candidates to join their colleagues for the October Call to the Bar.
He similarly requested that Part I students who fail more than two subjects be allowed to rewrite their papers and, upon successful completion, progress to Part II with their cohort.
The SRC president-elect emphasised that the proposal was not a call for relaxed academic requirements.
He said students granted the dispensation would still be assessed under the same examination standards, procedures and requirements applicable to other candidates.
According to him, the proposed measure is intended as a compassionate and practical response to the transitional challenges facing the current cohort of law students while preserving academic standards.
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