Uditha Egalahewa, senior State Counsel, who appeared for the Attorney General, yesterday gave the undertaking to the Supreme Court that the results of the Law College Entrance Examination held in September, 2004, will not be released until the fundamental rights violation application filed by a candidate against the drafting of the question papere is finally determined, or settled. Mr. Egalahewa said that the Council for Legal Education of the Law College of Sri Lanka and the Department of Examinations will work together and see whether questions with certain discrepancies could be deleted in marking the answer scripts. He moved court for a short date, to see whether a settlement was possible. Court gave a mention date on October 14, to see whether a settlement had been reached.

The Bench comprised Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake, Justice T. B. Weerasuriya and Justice N. E. Dissanayake.

The Supreme Court yesterday granted leave to proceed with this fundamental rights violation application filed by a student who sat the Law College Entrance Examination held on September 11, 2004. The petitioner had alleged arbitrary treatment by the respondents, the Commissioner General of Examination and the Incorporated Council for Legal Education of the Sri Lanka Law College. The petitioner Indeewari Attanayake had complained to the court that the question papers on the subject of ‘Background to the Law’ was more on economics than on Law and was drafted outside the syllabus prescribed by the council for Legal Education.

M. A. Sumanthiran, counsel for the petition said that the model answers prepared by the Department of Examination were incorrect. He said that answers should be drafted by persons competent in the subject of Law.