Ghana School of Law PLC: Law Practice Management (GLC)

Whether you can run a chambers lawfully and commercially. That means practice structures, employment and supervision of staff, client care and conduct, fees and client account handling, records and technology, case management, ADR, risk and compliance, and business development. Questions test judgement applied to facts, not memory of definitions alone.

The Professional Law Course assesses this subject through multiple choice, short answer and essay or problem-based questions. The precise mix, weighting and any changes for your year are set by the Ghana School of Law, so check your course outline and the School's official communications rather than relying on past patterns.

Those figures are set by the School and can change between years, so no reliable number can be given here. The Ghana School of Law publishes current examination regulations and pass requirements through its official channels; confirm the position for your cohort there before you plan your revision timetable around it.

Resit arrangements are governed by the School's examination regulations, not by the subject lecturers, and they differ depending on whether you fail the paper alone or the whole stage. Read the regulations for your year and speak to the examinations office early if you are at risk, rather than after results are released.

It is different rather than harder. There is less case law to memorise, but marks are lost on precision: candidates write generalities about integrity instead of citing the specific conduct rule, or discuss client accounts without distinguishing client money from office money. Accuracy on rules and figures matters more than length.

Start with practice structures and firm management so you understand who owes what duty to whom. Then take conduct and client care, followed immediately by fees and client accounts, because the two overlap heavily. Move on to records and technology, research and drafting, court practice and case management, ADR, then risk and marketing last.

Answering problem questions with abstract principle and no application to the facts; confusing the rules on holding client money with ordinary office accounting; ignoring the solicitor's personal liability for breaches by staff; and failing to structure essays with an introduction, headed analysis and conclusion. Poor time allocation in the short answer section is also common.

No, but familiarity helps. If you have not worked in a firm, visit or pupillage exposure to how files, diaries, billing and client accounts actually operate will make the problem questions concrete. Where that is not possible, work through hypothetical chambers scenarios and write out what you would do and why.

The course outline and materials issued by the Ghana School of Law, the Legal Profession Act and the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct and Etiquette) Rules, and the rules governing client accounts. Use textbooks and this site only as support. Where a rule has been amended, work from the current text rather than older summaries.

No. This is independent study material prepared for candidates revising the subject. It is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or issued by the Ghana School of Law or the General Legal Council, and it does not replace the official syllabus, regulations or teaching materials. Always treat official publications as authoritative.