At least 52 students pursuing post graduate diplomas in legal practice have been expelled for allegedly breaching the Law Development Center (LDC) rules.
The Board of Examiners sitting on December 7, 2017 to consider a list of 851 Bar Course students of 2017/2018 academic Year ruled that the students are ineligible to sit first term examinations due to their continued absence from the lecture rooms.
Everest Turyahikayo, the Academic Registrar issued the document with the decision which also announced that first term examinations will be held on December 11 to 15 this year.
The Public Relations Officer at LDC, Mr Hamis Lukyamuzi Ddungu, when contacted by our sources said that the expelled students failed to score 90 percent attendance in academic activities.
The discontinued will be doing their examinations the following year when the institution conducts the same exercise.
Turyahikayo was in agreement with the PRO when in an interview with our source he disclosed that,
“They have been discontinued in this academic year but the rules allow them to repeat the course in the first term of the next academic year.”
“We give them letters of discontinuation and in the communication we indicate that they are free to resume” he added.
Turyahikayo said that the decision is not a surprise because it is indicated under the rules governing the passing of the bar course.
“We do it every term; whoever does not meet the 90 percent [requirement] is discontinued” Turyahikayo said.
The discontinued students will now have to write to the institution to indicate their willingness to join the course for proper planning.
The students’ leadership said that they are trying to engage the administration to help fellow students to get the quickest remedy in the shortest time possible.
The guild president, Stanley Oketcho, was very optimistic that the examination board will exercise its mandate to reverse the decision for the students to do special examinations.
