According to the Law Society Gazette, 174 students were wrongly told that they had failed the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, when they had in fact been successful in those exams.
It happened to me half a century ago with the old Law Society Finals. In those days, the results were published in The Times newspaper and later confirmed by letter. If your name was not amongst the published list, it meant that you had failed. So, at 6.30 that August morning I rushed out and bought my copy of The Times.
Yippee! My name was on the list. But my jubilation turned to disappointment later that morning when I received through the post a letter from the College of Law commiserating me on my failure. What was that all about?
It turned out that it was all a mistake. The examiner had mixed up my name with someone else when posting out those important letters. So I had passed after all. Phew!
BRUCE AND HOLLY 