Uganda, March 20 -- The Sunday Monitor ran a story with a screaming headline on the front page "LDC in new scandal over student marks. There is no such a thing as a 'scandal' at the Law Development Centre (LDC). We would like to put the record straight as follows:

Following approval of the results by the Management Committee on February 5, LDC communicated results to individual students and commenced its internal processes which include: receiving and handling students complaints and queries, administrative reviews, verification of marks by students and appeals as provided for by the respective Rules Governing the Bar Course. We also gave opportunities to students who had supplementaries (retakes) in some subjects to do them and we condu...