Bar Exam Challenged by National Delegation of Law Students battle continues
The National Delegation of Law Students have upped their agitation against the first Bar exam to be held this December. The delegation which has approached the Law Minister to look into the issue threaten to resort to peaceful demonstrations if a decision is not taken in favour of the agitating students.
According to the latest press release on July 2, the National Delegation of Law Students, headed by President Siddharth S. Seth (pictured handing the proposal to the Law Minister), has decided to give a final call to the Law Minister and the Bar Council of India (BCI) to take a quick decision over the controversial issue of conducting the Bar exam in December of this year.
The delegation has decided that if within a span of three weeks a positive decision is not taken in favour of law students protesting against the Bar exam across India, the delegation will approach the Supreme Court on this issue under Article 32 of the Constitution and if needed will resort to peaceful demonstrations in the most obedient manner throughout the country.
Siddharth, a final year student at the Amity Law School said, “We would have welcomed this examination if at all it is needed and it is permissible in law, if we all could have been informed about the details before our academic year started. How can the BCI without giving any official intimation, any guideline or information regarding the pattern, by only giving us practically 1 and a half months time to prepare for this examination and keeping our professional career at stake for 8 months, expect us to give this sort of national Bar exam on which our entire future rests? ”
The delegation is also planning to write to the Chief Justice of India highlighting the suffering of the final year batch of 2010 law graduates.
They last met the Law Minister, Veerappa Moily on June 21 and explained to him that the students of the present batch of 2010 will suffer the most as the Bar exam results won’t be out till January 2011. They discussed that till date no letter had been sent to any law college or university regarding guidelines on the pattern and syllabus of this examination and therefore students were clueless about such an exam being imposed in a hasty manner on them.
The BCI is facing the wrath of final year students graduating from the academic batch of 2009-2010. At present a number of petitions have been filed in the various High Courts in India against the Bar exam and the hearing of these cases has been deferred till the decision is taken by the apex court in the Bonnie FOI Law College case.
A copy of the press release is available here.
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July 2, 2010 - 7:01pmThe bar exam is a great thing. It will eventually help the NLU students because it will separate them from the rest. If foreign law firms are allowed in then the sky will be the limit for them.
simran
September 10, 2010 - 6:02amThis exam is not good bt if BCI want to impliment it then it must be informed to students before starting the law nt when they clear the law degree. It harraas them a lot now. one thing more no clear information is given by BCI for this exam. so it shoud be revoked.
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July 2, 2010 - 7:29pmIF the BCI is serious enough for Bar Exam, it should urge the government to table a Bill in coming Monsoon session incorporating appropriate amendments in the Advocates’ Act in this regard. Until Bar Exam is held, fresh law graduates may be asked to undergo pre-enrolment apprenticeship, the provision for which should also be made in the Bill. The aforesaid amendment legislation must be passed well before the December this year when the exam is scheduled to be held. A draft of such amendment Bill has already been proposed by Law Commission in its 184th report on Legal Education (2002). Anything less than an amendment could result in SC striking off the concept of Bar exam as was evident in case of BCI prescribing maximum age for enrolment of advocate license as 45 years (1995). Hope the new BCI chief, Gopal Subramaniam, as well as Union Law Minister, M Verappa Moily, both of whom themselves seasoned legal practitioners, would ensure taming all possible legal hiccups before launching their agenda of legal reforms. ". HEMANT KUMAR ADVOCATE, AMBALA CITY HARYANA
Laxminarayan
July 3, 2010 - 3:12pmGood gys keep it up! we all r with u.
Dr. Md. Qutubud...
July 3, 2010 - 5:05pmThe delegation for opposing the Exam for registration as Advocate is correct. Here, Bar Coucil through nation should made the survey of Academic Calender so that no student should suffer with the Policy. General such type examinations or change in any pattern of education should be planned and declared at least 3 years before the implementation but this act on the part of Bar Council is ambiguous. Whether the moto of Bar Coucil is to develop the standard of Advocates or Education, which is not a instant process or the agreement between Rainmaker is made without any study or planning and Company is pressing of business and all other things.So any how the problems of Students who are protesting should be solved amicably so that their career should not be effected.
Saubhagya
July 4, 2010 - 11:22pmThis all India bar examination will just add on the number of examinations, and further would delay the disciple joining the profession. Conducting an examination will not enhance the quality of lawyers in the country rather the BCI University rules should be adhered to, in a more strict manner, to achieve the desired result.A single exam cannot judge the potential of a lawyer.Moreover, litigation as a profession is competition based, if the law graduate is not capable enough to plead a case, he cannot survive in the field for long. Then why unnecessary examining the graduate again in the subjects, which he has already being examined by the Universities(authority to them being delegated by the BCI)
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July 5, 2010 - 5:59pmthese brats opposing the exam need [Edited]
Saurabh
July 7, 2010 - 8:52amwell first of all this exam is not a competitive exam it is merely a qualifying exam i.e. just a pass fail exam and no merit list would be prepared, so an NLU student who has cleared the exam would have just passed the exam like any other student of any other law school in the country, nothing would distinguish him from others. Secondly, no one here is opposing the exam, all we are saying is that the exam scheduled to be held in Dec 2010 is being held in a haste and is not appropriate for the students graduating in 2010 itself.
susarla
July 10, 2010 - 10:41ami do appreciate about the all india bar exam for intending advocates.But the BCI should give ample time to write the same.In my view,it is better to implement from next year onwards
devraj thakur
July 15, 2010 - 2:15pmthis is nothing but a foolish step taken by committee appointed by the supreme court and BCI and the committee without taking into account the pros and cons of this test. petition shoud be filied on the basis of the prospectus which is a legal document in which nothing like thid mentioned. This the waste of time and money. The syllabus LLB include subjects where students learn the basic techniques of advocacy.It should be revoked.
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