The Asawase NDC MP condemned as unfair, the regulation seeking to require LLB graduates to pass an entrance exam and an interview if they want to enter the Ghana Law School for professional training.
The regulation, which is in Parliament in the form of a Legislative Instrument, automatically becomes law after 21 sitting days if it faces no resistance.
It is expected to become law by March 15, 2018.
But Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka said he is impatient to see the Subsidiary Legislation Committee, which is studying the LI, finish its work.
He says he is mobilising support from MPs to kick against the maturing Legislative Instrument.
“I have been praying and working very hard to get two-thirds of MPs majority to throw this thing away”, he said on Multi TV/Joy News analysis show, Newsfile.
The NDC MP branded the LI as a “grave injustice” to Ghanaians because it puts too many impediments on the path of prospective lawyers.
Ghana has more than 2,700 lawyers with a ratio of one lawyer to over 80,000 residents.
More than 2000 lawyers work in the capital Accra, leaving over 700 thinly spread across nine other regions.
He argued that other professional bodies like the Medical and Dental Council and the Nurses and Midwifery Council do not administer professional education like the General Legal Council currently does.
To become a doctor or nurse, a student must first obtain academic qualifications from a tertiary institution and then sit a professional exam administered by its professional body.
But to become a lawyer, a student obtains academic qualifications from a tertiary institution, sits an exam and attends an interview to be admitted to a professional training center, Ghana School of Law.
The student would then have to sit the bar exams before qualifying as a professional lawyer.
Condemning the General Legal Council, Muntaka Mohammed said the Council must limit itself to just administering bar exams instead of its pre-qualification screening for the examination.
He argued that even for professionals like doctors who handle corpse as part of their training are not made to go through the frustrations prospective lawyers suffer.
Already over 3,000 students who applied to enter the Ghana School of Law have been denied admission despite meeting the requirements set out in LI1296.
Muntaka said he is “very optimistic” about getting the support of MPs in the 275-strong chamber.
