Alleged Injustice Discussed

News Editor.

The Annual General Meeting of the Law Faculty Club devoted considerable time to the discussion of allegedly unjust treatment of students with regard to special examinations.

Alistair Taylor opened discussion with a motion that "The Law Faculty be requested to present a clear policy on aegrotat passes and special exams." In support of the motion (which included a number of other requirements, most of which were voted away) Taylor drew attention to the case of the two students who applied to sit specials, under, it was suggested, the same circumstances. One was accepted, the other refused, and the purpose of the motion was to find the truth of, or the reason for, this action

Other speakers felt that the Faculty must be trusted—that its members applied their minds to these matters, and no need was felt for the motion. The Faculty itself would realise that it was about time for these things to settle down.

"But they must work to some norms and standards," remarked another person.

"We must plead guilty to wavering back and forth." said Professor Campbell in reply to the motion. He went on to submit that he had been unexpectedly called into enrolment and that his plans had been knocked awry.

However this had no connection with accusation of injustice—"I categorically deny that the circumstances of the two cases were in any way similar," Campbell told the meeting.

The opinion was later expressed that "The more we insist that specials are to be a right, the less likely are we to be able to sit them." "If you lay down rigid specifications for aegrotat passes, you destroy the reasons for them—they are designed to meet the 'special case' and the 'exception'. It is at the discretion of the Faculty to preserve the value of the provisions."

The motion was then put, and soundly defeated. Said Taylor: "I'd like to move a motion of confidence in the staff." A voice from the floor: "You would need to, wouldn't you?"