On Wednesday, the Council of Legal Education (CLE) admitted to mixing up the Advocate Training Programme (ATP) examination results.
CLE made the admission following lawyers staging protests outside the council office headquarters citing exam results irregularities.
On July 10, lawyers taking the exams raised concerns that the exam results posted on the CLE portal were the same as those posted in 2023.
“The Council of Legal Education regrets the display mishap of the Advocate Training Programme (ATP) examination results released on July 9, 2024,” a statement from CLE read in part.
“Following the release of the results, candidates viewed their November 2023 ATP results instead of the April 2024 results.”
CLE assured lawyers that the mixup was immediately corrected and measures instituted to ensure the mishap did not occur again in future.
The examination body apologised to lawyers who had sat for the exams for the anxiety caused after receiving wrong results.
“The results as released are credible and comparable to the performance in previous years,” CLE spoke of the corrected results.
Going forward, CLE noted that a PDF bearing the results of all candidates would no longer be made publicly available.
As a move to adhere to the Data Protection Act, law students will be accessing their ATP results through their respective individual portals.
CLE remarked that however, a PDF document would be available at CLE for candidates to inspect their scores per unit and per attempted question.
In response to the grievances issued by law students, CLE announced it had instituted efficient mechanisms in the administration of the ATP examination.
This includes the process of setting, marking, and moderation that acts as the final accountability mechanism.
