LLB students to get five grace marks

Lahore: Punjab University’s fact finding committee on LLB Part-2 paper “Mercantile Law” has decided to award 5 marks to all the students in the paper on compassionate ground.

Addressing a press conference at Punjab University Club here Tuesday, PU Law College Principal Dr Shazia Naureen Qureshi, however, also clarified that the decision of the committee would also not be cited as precedent in future to provide any relief. 

Principal Quaid-e-Azam Law College Nafeer A Malik, Chairman Fact Finding Committee and Assistant Professor PU Law College Dr Amanullah Malik and other members of the committee were present on the occasion. 

Dr Shazia Qureshi said the marking of LLB Part-2 paper “Mercantile Law” was accurate and as per routine and no unjust was found with the candidates during the investigation of marking of all the solved papers. She said; however, the committee decided to award 5 marks to all the students in the paper on compassionate ground. She said the result of the students of PU Law College and private colleges was good and as per routine in the paper of Mercantile Law. However, she said, a large number of students of some private colleges performed poor in the paper which affected overall pass percentage.  She said the students had obtained good marks in rest of the papers of LLB Part 2 and after award of these ‘grace’ marks in Mercantile Law, their result would be improved and 625 students would get benefit of this decision. 

Dr Shazia Qureshi said principals of private colleges, including Pakistan Law College, Punjab Law College, Quaid-e-Azam Law College and National Law College were included in the fact finding committee and all marked papers were shown to them. 

To a question, Dr Shazia Qureshi said there were some other motives behind such baseless protests. She said a few activists of Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) were expelled from the college and IJT wanted to pressurise administration for restoration of the expelled students through such demonstrations. She said the administration would not take any pressure. She clarified that the decision of the committee would also not be cited as precedent in future to provide any relief.  Responding another question, she said the private secretary of Dean Faculty of Law, who was shown in a video marking papers of LLB, had a degree of LLM and was eligible to mark LLB papers. 

Meanwhile, some LLB students of some private colleges also protested, against what they termed unfair marking, at New Campus on Tuesday. They also tried to reach the venue of the press conference but the university’s security guards did not allow them.