“The Law Society is investigating a legal aptitude test to stem the tide of solicitors entering the profession.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A proposed boycott of Sats tests by two of England’s main education unions would be unlawful, the government says.”
BBC News, 10th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has taken the unprecedented step of launching legal action because he failed to be shortlisted for a judicial post after sitting a new written test. David Page, 58, who has sat as a £102,000-a-year full-time immigration judge since 2002, was insulted and shocked to find that he was ruled out after two 40-minute written papers.”
The Times, 29th January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The exams regulator is being taken to court over its refusal to allow humanism to be taught in religious education classes.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An academic has won a case against a university that ‘meddled’ in the marking of his students’ exams and gave new grades to papers he had failed.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A medical student with dyslexia is to take legal action in a bid to prevent the use of multiple choice exams as part of doctors’ training.”
BBC News, 29th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
GO and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 747; [2008] WLR (D) 225
“A foreign student who wanted an extension of stay had to be able to produce evidence of satisfactory progress, whether on the course named in his application for entry clearance or on another recognised course which he had undertaken. A failure to sit or to pass relevant examinations would always be material to the evaluation of the student’s progress, but whether it was decisive would depend on the reason for it.”
WLR Daily, 7th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Teenagers could receive thousands of pounds in compensation for being given the wrong GCSE and A-level grades, examination chiefs said.”
The Times, 22nd March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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