Trainee gets judicial review over failure of registration
examination
A pharmacy trainee who has failed the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society's registration examination three times has been granted a judicial
review of the Society's decision not to allow her a fourth attempt.
Rashida Shaikh claimed in the High Court on 1 November
that the Society had failed to take into account the acute personal strain
she was under at the time of the third examination attempt and should
have made a special case.
Her counsel, Ian Wise, told the court that her result,
of 66 per cent, had fallen only 4 per cent short of the pass mark and
should, in the exceptional circumstances, have been commuted into a pass.
The Society should have at least allowed her to sit the examination for
a fourth time.
Ms Shaikh sat the examination for the third time
in July 1999. She appealed on the basis that it had only been a narrow
failure and, for personal reasons, she had been under considerable financial
and emotional distress when she sat the examination. Mr Wise attacked
what he said was a lack of transparency in the procedures followed by
the Society.
After a brief hearing, Mr Justice Elias declared
Ms Shaikh's case "arguable". No date has been set for the full hearing.
The Society said that it was inappropriate for it
to comment at this stage.
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