This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'Calculation of honours in LLM'.
  
From: Paul Rishworth [mailto:[email address]] 
 
Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2006 6:02 p.m. 
 
To: [email address] 
 
Subject: Postgraduate Qualifications: Honours, Merit and Distinction 
 
 
The Faculty of Law view on the recommendations for classes of Honours is that we 
would much rather retain our present system in which First Class Honours are 
attained at GPA 7.0 (same as recommendation), Second Class (1st Div) at 6.0 (as 
opposed to the recommended 5.5), and Second Class (2nd div) at 5.0 (as opposed 
to the recommended 4.0). In other words, that no level of Honours if awarded for 
GPA less than B. 
 
Obviously we would comply with any University-wide requirement for consistency 
but the above is our strong preference. 
 
We don’t have a view on recommendation (ii); support (iii) and (iv). 
 
Regards 
 
Paul Rishworth 
Dean 
Faculty of Law