Kerala High Court:<\/strong> While deciding the case where a law student filed a petition for obtaining passing marks in one subject by entitling himself to a remedial provision of benefit of moderation, which covered students who have attained 30% marks in relevant paper for the finalisation of the result, the Division Bench of Mohan M. Shantanagoudar, CJ. and Sathish Ninan, J. held that the students who have repeatedly failed are not entitled to get the benefit of this provision and\u00a0and this provision will only be applicable in case of external examinations.<\/p>\n

The appellant is a student of five year LLB course. Having failed in several subjects, he passed the same in subsequent supplementary examinations. The appellant has completed the course except for one subject. The Board of Studies in Law had\u00a0unanimously decided to recommend granting of\u00a0special moderation to candidates who have completed\u00a0the LL.B course (old Scheme without internal\u00a0assessment), but stands failed only in a single paper in\u00a0all the semesters and only for the finalization of the\u00a0result. The Board suggested that moderation may be\u00a0awarded to candidates who have secured 30% marks\u00a0in the relevant paper subject to a maximum of 20\u00a0marks and moderation may be made applicable only in\u00a0the case of external examinations. Thereafter the appellant approached the court to seek remedy under the said provision .<\/p>\n