Law students from various Ugandan universities have filed a lawsuit against the Uganda Law Reform Commission and the Attorney General, seeking free and unrestricted access to the newly launched revised 7th edition of the Principle Laws of Uganda. The students, including visually impaired individuals who require the laws in Braille […]
The Law Development Centre (LDC) attributes the high failure rates among Bar Course students to inadequately prepared graduates (“half-baked lawyers”) emerging from Ugandan universities. The LDC argues that the nine-month Bar Course program is insufficient to address the significant knowledge and skill gaps of these students. The remarks were made […]
The Law Development Center (LDC) has asked the Law Council to investigate what they called suspicious degrees issued by some universities after receiving abnormally high numbers of students with high grades who fail to pass numerous subjects during training. This was revealed by Annet Karungi, the Head Bar Course at […]
By Ivan Ssenabulya Students of the Law Development Center who failed the 2019/20 exams have been invited for discussion with management about fees required to redo the bar course. Over 1,500 students sat for the exams but only 145 passed, recording a 90% failure rate, which most students have contested, […]
