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LIST: LDC admits over 600 for bar course
The Law Development Centre in Kampala. FILE PHOTO
What you need to know:
- It has always been prerequisite that for anyone to get admitted into LDC they ought to sit and pass pre-entry exams.
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Kahinda Otafiire had argued that the introduction of pre entry examinations was to try to decongest LDC since classes had huge numbers of students going up to 1000.
A total of 659 students have been admitted at the Law Development Centre (LDC) for the bar course 2018/19 after passing their pre-entry exams.
The admission list released Monday, a copy of which was seen by this reporter indicates that 624 of those admitted sat for their pre-entry in 2018 while 29 sat in 2017.
Six of the students who sat their pre-entry exams in 2016 and 2015 respectively are also on the list.
It has always been prerequisite that for anyone to get admitted into LDC they ought to sit and pass pre-entry exams.
However, in May 2018, MPs approved the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee recommendation to scrap pre-entry examinations for the bar course.
MPs argued that the scraping of the pre-entry examinations would give chance to more students to train in the legal practice and enable Ugandans easy access to legal services.
“We debated these issues and found that the policy is neither serving the purpose nor helping the already graduate lawyers who want to access the bar course. Pre-entry examinations are not a guarantee of quality assurance,” committee chairperson, Mr Jacob Oboth Oboth (West Budama south) was quoted saying.
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Kahinda Otafiire had reportedly argued that the introduction of pre entry examinations was to try to decongest LDC since classes had huge numbers of students going up to 1000.
