YLA to take legal action against law entrance exam results

By Lakmal Sooriyagoda

The Young Lawyers Association (YLA) yesterday said it would file a lawsuit against the 2012 law entrance exam results as there were doubts about the manner it was conducted.

Attorney-at-law Nuwan Bopage, an executive committee member of the YLA, said it would be filing a case before Court of Appeal or District Court requesting to annul the exam results or calling for a revision over the overall results.

Bopage said that the YLA was of the view that the Tamil medium paper had been leaked prior to the exam and that his organisation was making every attempt to revise this distorted result.

“As the YLA, we encouraged the students who sat for the exam to make complaints before CID over the exam fraud. After the Court vacation is over, we would file a lawsuit against the results,” he said. The YLA alleged that only 154 students had been selected from a total of 6,295 who sat for the exam in the Sinhala medium while 133 students out of a total of 705 Tamil medium students had been selected.