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When grades were deliberately marked up, it suggested favours had been traded but when they were marked down in the CLP examinations, it means that a quota policy was subsisting on the sly and quiet.

The implementation of a quota policy in CLP is distinguishable from the government's implementation of the same in our tertiary institutions in the following respects:

CLP has nothing to do with educational privileges accorded to bumiputras from public funds but strictly concerns admission to legal profession of candidates who obtained their overseas qualifications by way of their private funds. It has nothing to do with Constitutional privileges of Malays.

To this extent, the implementation of any quota system in the context of CLP is not constitutionally sanctioned under 'Malay privileges', it will violate the constitutional rights of those who would have other wise gained admission to the profession had their marks not been deliberately marked down by reason of their race.

This effectively raises the question whether those who had failed the CLP examinations in the past can now apply to court for judicial review of their failed results or alternatively a re-sit of the examinations by reason of the fiasco that recent events have shown that provide probable cause to believe that such peccadilloes had likewise taken place as well in their instance.

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