The Law Development Centre has come out to clarify the recent outburst of the public regarding its 2024/2025 academic year admissions. The Law Development Centre, the only institution in Uganda offering the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, has since clarified that it took in the highest number of students that the current government resources could afford.
He makes the statement in the wake of heightened frustration by law graduates who did not find a slot at LDC. Every year, hundreds of law graduates from different institutions in Uganda compete for only 500 slots in the PGDLP course, which is a mandatory prerequisite for legal practice in the country.
The limited capacity of LDC has created the rallying point in the call for reform as many aspiring legal practitioners seem to miss out on a qualification required to enable them to advance in their careers. This shows a wider problem within Uganda’s legal education system, where demand for legal practice training far outstrips the available slots.
In response to the situation, the LDC is in discussions with the Attorney General and the Law Council on possible remedies, including admitting more students or alternatively revisiting the LDC’s monopoly on legal training.
As such, the public equally watches LDC close through these challenges together with the students that are preparing for the next intake. The Bee will, therefore, keep updating its readers of each step as this case changes and probably results in a different settlement from the present negotiations.
For now, LDC plans to continue operating within its limited resources to try to mitigate the concerns of the victims of the admission limits.
