Thirteen student lawyers have appealed to the Douai Court of Appeal (North) to have the penalties imposed by their school canceled because of fraud in an exam. A hearing is scheduled for December 13, according to France Bleu Nord.
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The Douai Court of Appeal (North) has scheduled an interim hearing on December 13 to examine an appeal filed by several student lawyers from the IXAD school, based in Lille, France Bleu Nord reported on Tuesday, November 2. These thirteen students were all sanctioned for having defrauded during the final exam, which was held at a distance because of the Covid-19.
These students had made “similar copies”, according to the management, which had earned them to be sanctioned by the disciplinary commission of the establishment on October 4, with sanctions ranging from reprimand to temporary exclusion. Some students will therefore not be able to become a lawyer for at least a year.
If almost all admit their fault, they demand the cancellation of the exam and the right to have a resit. Their lawyers also denounce massive fraud during this examination, with a figure of “90% cheaters” put forward by one of the lawyers at France Bleu Nord. For this, the advice is based on several evidence, including screenshots of discussion groups on social networks, sent to the courts. You can read exchanges between students during the exam, with advice.
“We never imagined for a moment that the candidates would wall themselves for five hours. We suspected that they were going to discuss but the sanctions fell because they returned the same copy”, reacted Frédéric Baube the president of IXAD to France Bleu Nord.