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    "id": 73485,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/73485/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Cheptumo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 50,
        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
        "slug": "william-kipkiror"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) In the academic year 2011/2012, the Kenya School of Law admitted 104 applicants to sit for the pre-bar examinations. The examination consists of six courses; namely, Legal Methods, Systems and Constitutional Law, the Law of Contracts, the Law of Torts, Land Law, Family Law, Succession and Commercial Law with a pass mark grade of 40 per cent. Out of the 104 candidates, only 12 passed the examination. That represents a rate of 12.2 per cent. Due to the poor performance, the Board of Examiners recommended to the Academic Affairs of the Council of Legal Education that, instead of requiring that candidates pass in all the six subjects, the results should be aggregated to arrive at a mean mark of the six subjects. Using that formula, the pass rate would rise from 21 per cent to 63.5 per cent, which would result to 66 candidates passing the examinations instead of the 12. The results as recommended by the Board of Examiners constituted provisional results and the Director of the School released the same pursuant to Regulation 8. Those provisional results are the ones dated 22nd October, 2010 and were posted on the school’s notice board and the website. The provisional results as recommended by the Board of Examiners were conveyed to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Council and the Council of Legal Education for approval as required under Regulation 7. In the meetings held on 29th October and 5th November, 2010, respectively, both the Academic Affairs Committee and the Council of Legal Education guided by the provisions of Section 11 of the First Schedule to the Regulations, rejected the recommendations of the Board of Examiners. Section 11 provides that a student shall sit and pass examination papers in all courses undertaken in order to qualify for admission to the advocate’s training programme. Accordingly, therefore, the Kenya School of Law did not release two sets of results. The results dated 22nd October are provincial results as recommended by the"
}