Bar Council of India Legal Education Rules 2021
Article 18 states that BCI Trust may organise paralegal, technological and court management courses of reasonable duration online and/or offline to facilitate paralegal work and court management to cover updated education and training. BCI Trust may request assistance for this purpose and may use the services of the National Legal Services Authority and the State Legal Services Authorities. At the same time, BCI stressed that law schools can only be created and closed by universities and state governments, and that the regulator therefore plans to withdraw permission to hold legal education courses at such a university. The Bar Council of India has various committees that make recommendations to the Council. The members of these committees shall be elected from among the members of the Council. “The complainant forms a high-level committee to examine the legal and constitutional validity of mandatory placement in chambers with experienced lawyers or lawyers who have worked for years at the Association of Young Graduates of the Bar, or on a fair system allowing juniors to find a placement in the chambers. After concluding how to implement this issue, each of these lawyers will be invited to admit at least 5 of these juniors to their rooms,” reads the affidavit filed before a chamber presided over by Judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul. BCI pointed out, with regard to admission to law schools, that although entrance exams are currently conducted by the relevant university, “it is proposed that the BCI Legal Education Committee and the Advisory Board consider introducing a state entrance test for admission to law schools at its next meeting.” The Advisory Council is composed of the Chief Justice of India and nine other Supreme Court judges, as well as EU ministers, vice-chancellors from various universities, high-ranking lawyers, academics, social activists and parliamentarians. Based on the scores obtained by the young lawyers on an online aptitude test, they could be placed under the guidance of lawyers called lead lawyers or lawyers with 25 years of tenure within the bar association, according to the affidavit filed on April 11. Under the Lawyers Act, the Bar Council of India consists of members elected by each Council of the State Bar Association, as well as the Attorney General of India and the Solicitor General of India, who are ex officio members. [Citation needed] Section 5 indicates the duration of legal training.
It states that the L.L.B course is the entry-level qualification, which is either three years or as an integrated degree for five years. The postgraduate study in law leading to a master`s degree, LL.M., is to last two years and span four semesters. Experienced lawyers may soon have to sit at least five young lawyers in their chambers, according to an affidavit filed with the Supreme Court by the Bar Council of India (BCI) on a series of proposals to reform the country`s legal education. Referring to the court`s concerns about the spread of law schools and the lowering of standards, BCI said it had booked about 500 lower institutions across the country. “A team led by seasoned former judges/lawyers and well-known academics plans to make surprise visits to such institutions. If it is determined that an institution is below the standard and does not have sufficient faculties or infrastructure, the Legal Education Committee will take immediate steps to close those institutions,” the affidavit reads. Some state universities have ruthlessly granted affiliation to law schools. Often, state governments issue certificates of no objection without checking the infrastructure. These are the barriers to improving the standard of legal education, and it also affects the standard of advocacy,” BCI complained. The Indian government`s education policy, 2020, has categorically carved out legal education from the proposed new umbrella institution, the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), with its regulatory arm of the National Higher Education Regulatory Council [NHERC], which excludes legal education as one of only two vocational training courses apart from the scrapping of the HECI and its regulatory body. NHERC, makes the whole field of legal education for the Bar Council of India to regulate.
Article 16 states that the Bar Council of India, through the B.C.I. Trust, shall introduce two continuing education courses to improve professional efficiency only for lawyers registered with a State Bar Council. You are a Partner of the Bar Council of India (A.B.C.I) and the Fellowship of the Bar Council of India (F.B.C.I). The A.B.C.I. corresponds to L.L.M. and F.B.C.I. corresponds to doctorate. Supported by Senior Counsel and Amicus Curiae KV Viswanathan, the bank stressed on March 15 that legal education standards would not improve until BCI tightened the standard in exams, maintained strict entry-level controls and ensured constant monitoring of law schools, determining a specific level of education. To prevent the emergence of law schools, BCI said it imposed a three-year moratorium on the opening of new law schools in August 2019. However, the Supreme Court of Punjab and Haryana declared the moratorium unconstitutional because it violated the right to engage in a profession or to engage in a profession, trade or enterprise under Article 19(10)(g). Following the court order, BCI issued a press release in June 2021 clarifying that there is no longer a moratorium. The Bar Council of India is a statutory body established under Section 4 of the Lawyers Act, 1961 which governs legal practice and legal education in India.
Its members are elected from among the lawyers in India and, as such, represent the Indian Bar Association. It prescribes standards relating to ethics, etiquette and the exercise of disciplinary jurisdiction over the bar. It also sets standards for legal education and grants recognition to universities whose law degree will serve as a qualification for students to enroll as lawyers after graduation. [1] [2] [3] The Council of the Bar Association of India has issued rules and regulations L.L.M. These rules are communicated in respect of § 7 paragraph 1 letters h, i; (ia); ib); ic); (2) (b); c); 15(1); point (fa) of Article 49(1); d); (e) with the aim of strengthening legal education at all levels of the baccalaureate, postgraduate level, legal research, court technology and management, legal education and professional and clinical skills development courses delivered offline and online. The affidavit, filed by attorney Durga Dutt on behalf of BCI, adds that the board also plans to formulate a rule requiring that objective online tests be conducted by new law graduates and that online test results be valid for a period of six months. The bank`s installer came when he heard an appeal from the BCI against an order from the Gujarat Supreme Court that allowed a woman to register as a lawyer without terminating her employment by an order in November 2020. BCI argued that the decision would open the floodgates for such claims, although the rules explicitly state that no one can register as a lawyer while working in another job.
The Bar Council of India has established a Directorate of Legal Education to organize, operate, conduct, maintain and manage the following: Article 15 states that universities may enroll a set number of students in the Doctoral/SJD course in law. According to BCI statistics, there are about 1,500 law schools across the country, with private colleges accounting for 75 percent. There are 1.7 million registered lawyers in the country and 80,000 to 100,000 new lawyers are registered each year, according to BCI data. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on BCI`s response on April 19. Article 3 establishes the appointment of a special subcommittee appointed by the Bar Council of India on the advice of the Legal Education Committee. This committee will implement these regulations under the general control and guidance of the Legal Education Committee (LEC) of the Bar Council of India. The OFM responded on 15 September. A flurry of questions from the court in March when the bank begged the regulator to introduce a series of reforms – from the standards followed by law schools to the placement of young law graduates. Section 10 discusses how to conduct a PGP course. Article 19 states that the Bar Council of India may initiate programmes to improve teacher and teacher training through the B.C.I.
Trust. In 1961, the Advocates Act[4] was introduced to implement the recommendations of the All India Bar Committee and the Law Commission. Mr. C. Setalvad and C.K. Daphtary were the first Presidents and Vice-Presidents respectively. In 1963, C. K. Daphtary became chairman and S. K. Ghose became vice chairman.
[1] [5] The affidavit also deplored the indifference of universities and state governments to improving the infrastructure of state law schools. “About 90% of state-run higher education institutions are experiencing a severe shortage of infrastructure and faculty (many vacancies not filled in the last 15 to 20 years).