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Wednesday November 12, 2014 MYT 12:59:37 PM
Court sets Jan 6 for suit by dyslexic student against Exams Syndicate, Govt
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed Jan 6 for case management in the suit by a dyslexic primary school student against the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate and Government over negligence which led to the recent leak of UPSR examination papers.
High Court deputy registrar K. Pavani fixed the date after meeting with the plaintiff’s lawyer V. Rajadevan and Senior Federal Counsel Zureen Elina Mohd Dom.
Rajadevan said the court had given direction for the defendants to file their defence.
He said the court later fixed Jan 6 for case management.
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the Sundaily
Dyslexic pupil sues govt for negligence over UPSR
KUALA LUMPUR: A 13-year-old boy with dyslexia has filed a suit against the director of the Malaysian Examinations Board and the government for negligence in the handling of this year’s Primary School Achievement Test (UPSR) examination papers, some of which he had to resit.
K. Mangala Bhavani filed the suit on behalf of the pupil, Ananda Krishnan Menon, at the Civil High Court registry on Oct 13 through the legal firm of Messrs Rajadevan & Associates.
The case has been fixed for case management on Nov 12. In the statement of claim, Ananda Krishnan, a pupil of Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Tun Dr Ismail 2, said the defendants had failed to implement a safe system to ensure there was no leak of the examination question papers.
He also said that the defendants failed to supervise employees and their agents – lawful representatives – to ensure that the question papers did not leak from the beginning of the process of preparing the questions till the process of distributing the question papers to all schools in Malaysia.
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1203711
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Dyslexic schoolboy sues exams syndicate, Putrajaya over UPSR Leak. Sad that it has to come to this state. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/mobile/malaysia/article/dyslexic-schoolboy-sues-exams-syndicate-putrajaya-over-upsr-leaks
Malaysian Insider
Dyslexic schoolboy sues exams syndicate, Putrajaya over UPSR leaks
Naming the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate and Putrajaya as defendants, Ananda said the government did not take action against the examinations syndicate members and their agents over the leaks.
“Instead, the government set up an independent committee to review its standard operating procedure in the conduct and management of public examinations,” the schoolboy said in the legal suit.
He said the syndicate, its employees or their agents were negligent which resulted in the leak of the Science, English, Mathematics and Tamil papers.
He added the syndicate had failed to provide a safe system in ensuring there was no leak and failed to supervise its employees from the time the examination papers were sent to all schools nationwide.
He is seeking aggravated damages for the mess created by the syndicate.
The examinations syndicate is entrusted to prepare and print question papers for all public examinations as these documents are classified under the Official Secrets Act before the examinations start.
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