Edward naawe obuza…. She is a true muganda!!!
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From: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com [mailto:ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Herrn Edward Mulindwa
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 16:05
To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: {UAH} 82 per cent fail LDC exams
Why are noses of Uganda women this funny?
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com [mailto:ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Hannah Ogwapiti
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 5:44 AM
To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: {UAH} 82 per cent fail LDC exams
Be aware of internship fraud too in Uganda.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:44 PM, edward pojim <epojim@yahoo.com> wrote:
Folks;
This failure rate from the Law Development Center is symptomatic of the deeper problems of quality in legal practise in Uganda. Our classrooms are set up to push students to the next grade, without bothering to establish how efficiently they are prepared to move ahead.
This starts in primary level, under the Universal Primary Education, and continues even up to the university level. Law students need practical experience before they graduate from law school. This experience is gained through actual working with an established law firm, as clerks to judges, or with a corporation that has a decent legal department.
Unfortunately, in Uganda, law students are left to struggle on their own. And after three years of cramming courseworks, they are graduated and send to LDC to be taught "how to practise law" in order to be qualified to practise law.
This arrangement handicaps the graduates. It catches their weaknesses when it's too to provide any long-lasting remedy. LDC should be disbanded, and its resources used to pair Second Year law students with matching opportunities to gain hands-on experience with lawyers practising in their preferred areas of specialty.
Here in US, law students specialize in their chosen fields from the second year. the First year is used to introduce students all sub-categories of law. And so, it's easy for a Second Year student, who wants to pursue a career as Defense Attorney, to land an internship with a prominent Defense Attorney.
But from the way our system works today, we will end up with lawyers of the calibre of Vincent "Vinny" Gambino, the legally clueless but worldly resourceful former Brooklyn mechanic (Joe Pesci), whose first courtroom experience is to defend two young friends accused of murder in the movie, My Cousin Vinny.
Pojim
Kampala- About three quarters of lawyers who sat their final examinations at Law Development Centre (LDC) in the last academic year have failed the course.
According to the results released and pinned on the LDC notice board yesterday, of the 358 students who sat for the bar course exams, only 64 passed out rightly.
This means 294 lawyers (82.1 per cent) failed the exams.
However, 232 of the 294 students have to re-sit some papers, a total of 45 failed in four or more subjects while 17 will explain why they missed sitting for exams for some subjects.
Thirty two lawyers were discontinued in their first term after failing both written and oral practical examinations – which are used as a yardstick for one to proceed with the course.
Although failure rates on the bar course had gone down from 93 per cent in the 2009/2010 academic year to 74 per cent in 2010/2011, according to LDC records, the latest results show that failures are still synonymous with the centre.
Last year’s performance is poor compared to that of 2012/13 academic year where 104 lawyers passed out of 347 who sat the final bar course exams. Analysis of the 2012/13 results per subject shows that out of 344 students who sat the Compulsory subject, 333 passed and 11 failed, 340 students sat Domestic Relations, 265 passed and 75 failed.
Another 343 students sat Civil Proceedings, 278 passed and 65 failed, 340 students sat Criminal Proceedings, 254 passed and 86 failed while 677 students who sat Commercial Transactions and Land Transactions, 323 passed and 354 failed.
For a lawyer to have passed the Bar Course, they have to pass both written and oral practical examinations.
According to LDC exam rules, it is mandatory to pass the five core subjects;
Civil Proceedings, Criminal Proceedings, Commercial Transactions, Land Transactions and Domestic Relations.
LDC spokesperson Hamis Lukyamuzi declined to comment on the matter and efforts to speak to the director, Mr Frank Othembi, also proved futile as his known telephone number was off.
LDC and student failures
The bar course which qualifies lawyers to join legal practice is supposed to be completed in one year. A student has to write and pass all his examinations, including oral and practical papers within the stipulated period.
LDC, which is the only institution that offers the bar course in the country has in the last decade faced criticism over the shrinking academic standards partly blamed on the ill-equipped library, poor quality of students admitted for the Bar Course and absenteeism of lecturers. Three years ago, the centre introduced a new policy to start subjecting all students to pre-entry exams as measure to weed out sub-standard students but this appears not to have yielded much as massive failures continue to haunt the centre.
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H.OGWAPITI
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