The Law Council has finally accepted to scrap pre-entry exams at the Law Development Centre (LDC) after months or even years of turning a deaf ear to the \u2018most threatening\u2019 exams at the Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the high failure rates by law students at LDC that had triggered suspicion that universities were releasing half-baked law graduates, the Committee on Legal Education and Training for the Law Council introduced a pre-entry exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pre-entry exams were introduced in 2010 by the Committee on Legal Education and Training of the Law Council as a legal requirement for joining LDC have been a centre of debate by members of the public for quite a time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to resolutions by the Law Council following a meeting, they agreed to suspend the exams for a period of two years as they look into the decision to scrap them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Law Council has resolved to suspend the LDC pre-entry examinations for a period of two years effective 2019 and LDC is authorized to admit 1680 students for the Bar Course 2019\/2020 in Kampala campus and 560 in Mbarara campus,\u201d reads one of the decisions by the Law Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Law Council also resolved that LDC reopens applications for the Bar Course in the year 2019\/20 that had been closed on August 9, 2019 and that students not accommodated in the 2019\/20 can be admitted in the year 2020\/21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to resolutions by the Law Council, all those who passed the pre-entry exams in the previous years but had not joined LDC should be admitted in the year 2019\/20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Law Development Centre is the only institution in the country that awards Post Graduate Diplomas in law and without this qualification, a law graduate cannot be allowed to represent a litigant in court.
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