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UK Public Law Weekly: key judicial reviews (RCGP exams, EUSS Zambrano, Ukraine scheme, CPS decision), subsidy control and Brexit customs updates, Lords briefing on lost PMBs, trackers—29 August 2024

Published on: 29 August 2024

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Policy on re-sitting assessments irrational—R (on the application of Dr Marwa Karmakar)

The Administrative Court determined the claimants’ challenges to the legality of a rule or policy introduced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). That rule limited candidates to four attempts at each of the three assessment tests, even where a person discovers after sitting an exam that she has a disability which, had it been known at the time, would have entitled her to ‘reasonable adjustments’, including extra time to take the test. The first claimant (K), a GP trainee, had sat the applied knowledge test three times, failing on each occasion. Her educational supervisor subsequently suspected a neurodiverse condition. K was referred for a neurodiversity assessment, and the report’s author concluded that she displayed a neurodiverse cognitive profile. Relying on that report, K sought reasonable adjustments for her fourth sitting...

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