CHOMBA MUSIKA
Lusaka
THE over 100 students who sued Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) council will now be allowed to sit examinations, which they were prevented from writing.
The students had sued the council for preventing them from sitting the repeaters’ Legal Practitioners’ Qualifying Examination (LPQE).
Through a consent judgment between the students and the ZIALE council, endorsed by Judge Gertrude Chawatama, the affected learners will be allowed to sit the exams.
“…the defendant (ZIALE) shall permit all excluded plaintiffs to retake the head of the Legal Practitioners Qualification Examination they did not pass,” the consent verdict reads.
“…granting them one additional attempt, subject to the said plaintiffs’ fulfilling all administrative formalities required to sit for the said examinations.”
The judge further guides that the students who had not exhausted their attempts under the ZIALE Student Rules 1985 (now revoked) shall be allowed by the council to retake the heads of the LPQE they never passed….https://enews.daily-mail.co.zm/welcome/home
