An LPC graduate has kicked off a very public spat with the University of Law after it lost one of her exam papers.

Students at the UoL in Birmingham sat an exam on international public companies back in the summer, but unfortunately the UoL managed to lose part of two students' papers. One of them, Laura Will, claimed that the UoL gave her the unappetising option of taking a resit a year after the original exam, and she went large.

In the Gazette this week she said she'd been told that the papers had been left in a tutor's pigeon hole for three weeks before being thrown out by mistake. Despite the lost paper, she managed to achieve merit in the module, but she says had been confident of a distinction. Max Harris, Chair of the Law Society’s Junior Lawyers Division, rounded on the UoL, saying "Asking the student to wait for a year is simply not good enough."

Only the situation appears to be a little more complicated. An insider says that the UoL immediately offered to average out the results for the paper, and one of the students accepted. Will declined and is hanging on for an upgrade. 


A spokeswoman for the UoL said that while the UoL would not discuss individual cases, "where it is in our power, a student will never be disadvantaged with marks for a mistake that we are responsible for, and that is certainly the case in this particular situation".