Students in the Senior High Schools who have interest in law should be mentored in order to gain significant perspective in the work of the judiciary, Chief Justice Georgina Wood has said.
“The motivation would enable them to consider a career in the legal profession and subsequently do away with the impression that the judiciary is reserved for some selected members of the society,” she said.
The Chief Justice was addressing students from some selected Senior High Schools during the third Annual Lady Chief Justice’s Mentoring Programme on the role of the Judiciary in the governance of Ghana in.
She was optimistic that when students were exposed to the activities of law at an early stage, they would be informed enough to help access justice and participate in the rule of law.
Giving an overview at the ceremony, the president of the Commercial Court, Justice Mrs. Margaret Welbourne, said the mentoring programme would inculcate into the youth the aims and objectives of the legal profession and its principles, as well as encourage them to become lawyers and administrative Justices in future.
She expressed satisfaction with the fact that so far, three students who had participated in the programme were currently reading Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology and the University of Ghana.
The students were guided by members of the Judiciary on a tour of the courts and observed proceedings in the Commercial, Fast Track, Land and Commercial Crimes, Family and Juvenile and the Gender-Based Violence Courts.
“The motivation would enable them to consider a career in the legal profession and subsequently do away with the impression that the judiciary is reserved for some selected members of the society,” she said.
The Chief Justice was addressing students from some selected Senior High Schools during the third Annual Lady Chief Justice’s Mentoring Programme on the role of the Judiciary in the governance of Ghana in.
She was optimistic that when students were exposed to the activities of law at an early stage, they would be informed enough to help access justice and participate in the rule of law.
Giving an overview at the ceremony, the president of the Commercial Court, Justice Mrs. Margaret Welbourne, said the mentoring programme would inculcate into the youth the aims and objectives of the legal profession and its principles, as well as encourage them to become lawyers and administrative Justices in future.
She expressed satisfaction with the fact that so far, three students who had participated in the programme were currently reading Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology and the University of Ghana.
The students were guided by members of the Judiciary on a tour of the courts and observed proceedings in the Commercial, Fast Track, Land and Commercial Crimes, Family and Juvenile and the Gender-Based Violence Courts.
