The former Makindye East Member of Parliament, Michael Mabike has sued Law Development Center for canceling his Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
Through his lawyers of Semuyaba, Iga and Company Advocates, Mabike contends that after successfully completing his four-year bachelors of law degree at Makerere University School of Law in 2007, he applied to LDC for a post graduate diploma in Legal Practice and was admitted.
He, however, says that he was shocked when his Post Graduate Diploma was canceled six years later.
In his application before the High Court Civil Division, Mabike contends that the six-member Subcommittee, which recommended the cancellation of his certificate was comprised of members who were not qualified enough to pass judgment on examinations and academic qualifications of a legal nature.
Mabikke is one of the nine lawyers whose post-graduate Diploma in Legal Practice was cancelled in 2016 after being found guilty of engaging in examination malpractice.
Mabikke says he passed the one-year Bar Course in 2010 and went on to practice law.
The cancellation followed investigations that were commissioned by LDC to investigate allegations of examination malpractice at the institution covering the period between 2004 to 2011 based on a Forensic Audit Report.
According to him, the committee didn’t give him a fair hearing since it was only appointed to investigate and collect evidence but didn’t have powers to conduct a hearing. Mabike argues that if the proceedings were to be taken as a hearing, they don’t meet the rules of natural justice.
He wants court to declare that by cancelling his diploma, LDC acted irrationally, unfairly and against rules of natural justice. He also wants court to uphold his award in the said qualification and direct LDC to compensate him for the inconveniences and embarrassment caused to him by their actions.
Court is yet to summon LDC to respond to Mabike’s application
