The Faculty of Law of the KAAF University has inaugurated an advisory board to provide strategic oversight, professional guidance and support for its Pre-Bar and Bar Programme.

The board is chaired by Prof Lydia Nkansah, an Associate Professor of Law, and comprises experienced Justices of the Court of Appeal, senior legal practitioners and distinguished legal academics.

The board would review the structure and content of the pre-bar programme and offer advice on curriculum relevance, professional standards and teaching methods.

It would also promote engagement between students, the judiciary and the legal profession and ensure that the programme responds to developments in legal education and practice.

Mr Charles Nana Osei Bonsu, the Dean of the Faculty of Law and a member of the board, described its inauguration as an important milestone in the growth and development of the Faculty.

He said the establishment of the Board reflected the faculty’s conviction that contemporary legal education required a close partnership between academia, the Bench and the Bar.

Mr Bonsu said the experience of the board members would provide the faculty with valuable practical and academic guidance.

He said senior legal practitioners would help connect legal education with the realities of legal practice, while academics would help maintain intellectual rigour.

He explained that the faculty conceived the pre-bar programme following the passage of the Legal Education Act, 2026 (Act 1170).

The programme was designed to strengthen the preparation of law graduates seeking professional legal education.

According to him, the programme would cover Company Law and Practice, Commercial Law and Practice, Family Law and Practice, Interpretation of Statutes and Deeds, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

He said emphasis would also be placed on legal reasoning, problem-solving, statutory interpretation, drafting, advocacy, professional judgment and the practical application of legal principles.

The programme, he said, sought to bridge the gap between academic legal education and professional training.

Prof Kwame Boasiako, Chairman of the University’s Governing Council, thanked the judiciary, Board Members, faculty and other partners for supporting the initiative.

He expressed confidence that the partnership would improve the quality and relevance of legal education and produce graduates who were professionally competent, ethically grounded and committed to justice.