EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

EXAMINATION REGULATIONS

Legal Practitioners’ Qualifying Examination (LPQE)
For the Legal Professional Training Course, the Candidate Legal Practitioners Regulations GN 228 of 1995, Published in Gazette No. 1207 dated 1st December, 1995 will apply. In terms thereof, the Legal Practitioners Qualifying Examination shall be conducted in accordance with such instructions as may have been issued by the Board for Legal Education.

A Candidate for the Legal Practitioners Qualifying Examination (LPQE) shall be assessed on the basis of continuous assessment, which continuous assessment shall comprise the aggregate of the marks obtained by the candidate in the written assignments done during the relevant year and the marks obtained in the Mid-Year  Examination, in each of the subjects of the syllabus of the course.

The marks for the written assignments and the Mid-Year Examination shall each total 20 percent of the aggregate of the marks in the continuous assessment and the end of the year examination.  To qualify to write the LPQE or end of the year Examination a candidate shall obtain 40 percent in his/her continuous assessment mark.

The marks to be obtained by a candidate in order to pass any subject in the LPQE shall be 50 percent, based on the aggregate of the marks obtained in the end of the year Examination and the continuous assessment, provided that a subminimum of 40 percent for each subject is obtained in the end of the year Examination.

The total mark in each subject in the Legal Practitioners’ Qualifying Examination (LPQE) shall consist of 60 percent representing the mark in the end of year examination and 40 percent representing the mark in the continuous assessment.

A candidate, who has taken and four times retaken the Legal Practitioners’ Qualifying Examination or any part thereof and failed to complete it, shall not be permitted to retake the whole examination or any part thereof within five years of his/her attempt, unless the Board upon an application of such candidate has granted its consent therefore.

All courses, subjects, curricula and examinations may be changed subject to consultations with the Minister of Justice and the Board for Legal Education.