Moroccan Law School Fined $80,000 for Withholding Student Diplomas After Scandal

It’s almost David against Goliath. Refusing to register her and return her diplomas so that she could re-enroll in another university, a student has just had this faculty ordered to pay her 800,000 dirhams. The sentence was handed down by the Administrative Court of Casablanca and confirmed by the Court of Appeal of the same city in this case dating back to 2013, reports the newspaper Al Akhbar.

That year, the faculty was at the heart of a scandal for grade falsification and corruption. The young student filed a complaint against the university and the courts ordered the faculty to change the grades, which allowed her to obtain her diploma. Wanting to take revenge for the legal proceedings, the management refused to return her diploma and that of the baccalaureate, thus preventing the young student from re-enrolling.

The courts ultimately ruled in her favor by blocking the university’s bank account and ordering it to pay the sum of 800,000 dirhams for the damage suffered.