Mr Ambrose Dery, Deputy Minority Leader on Thursday, expressed the need for government to decentralise legal education to create fair access to prospective law students across the country.
He, therefore, called on the Ghana Legal Council (GLC) to establish law schools in the North in pursuance of the decentralization process.
Mr Dery was commenting on a statement made by Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia, on inadequate facilities for legal education in Ghana.
According to Deputy Minority Leader extending the campuses of the Ghana School of Law to the University of Ghana (UG) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi (KNUST) was not enough.
Presenting the statement, Dr Prempeh said currently the UG, Zenith University and KNUST were the institutions offering courses, leading to the award of law degrees adding that University of Cape Coast and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration would soon offer the course.
He express wonders how students in these institutions would progress to the next stage of their studies since the School of Law that provides the professional aspects of legal training is situated at Makola in Accra.
Dr Prempeh said it was obvious that Ghana School of Law was incapable of providing the requisite training space required to equip graduates to become lawyers.
This year the School introduced a quota system through which only 200 out of the more than 300 qualified students were offered admissions.
He said the quota system gave room for admission of 80 students from KNUST, 80 from the UG and 40 from Zenith University and other foreign degree holders.
"What must not be countenanced is the unfair quota system, says Dr Prempeh, adding that a fairer system would be based on percentage output from the universities.
He proposed the need for the Ghana School of law to run two streams- one in the morning and another in the afternoon to clear up the back log of students seeking admission.
Mr Ebo Barton-Oduro Member for Cape Coast said a proposed UG School of Law and that of KNUST has been advertised.
He said GLC had set up a team to liaise with management of the two campuses to kick start the programme in October.
Papa Owusu Ankamah, MP for Sekondi said the standard of law in the country was low and urged the GLC to provide the benchmark to measure up to the developed countries.
He said the context of the legal education in Ghana should be re-examined.
Mr. Stephen Balado Manu, Member for Ahafo-Ano South said the importance of lawyers to the country's democracy could not be disputed even when they are not in practice, adding that "we need them in Parliament and almost every sector".
Mr. Moses Asaga, MP for Nabdam, supported the idea for the establishment of law schools in the North especially in Tamale.
He appealed to new lawyers to enter into news areas like Petroleum Law and Commercial Law instead of sticking to traditional law.