'Old' LLB grads hit SC over TN bar council's age-limit disbarments

Monday, 12 May 2014 By Legally India Legally Wired

The Supreme Court will hear a petition against the Tamil Nadu bar council, which allegedly issued show cause notices to 400 lawyers and began removing graduates who completed their LLB degrees after they were 30 years old.

The petition by a group of graduates calling themselves the TN LLB Advocates Association, who studied for their LLB degrees outside of Tamil Nadu, claims that the Bar Council of India (BCI) had abolished the rule prescribing a maximum age limit of 30 on LLB students in 2013.

Justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and Ranjan Gogoi issued notice to the Tamil Nadu bar council and 30 law colleges in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra. The Tamil Nadu bar council locked horns with the BCI over the controversial rule in December, passing a resolution to reenforce the age limit. Apparently more than 1,000 grads could be affected by the bar council’s actions. [New Indian Express]

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Comments

Jury 13 May 2014, 07:47
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Non of them in TN with LLB from Karnataka and AP have attended classes. Most of them are 10th standard fails, accused in criminal cases, employed with govt or private companies(procedurally they are not supposed to undergo regular degree courses), rowdy elements to insulate them from police and arrest, politicians with chequered background.

They should never be allowed to enroll as lawyers. Real culprits are the college management.
Dazed and Confused 13 May 2014, 10:42
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Hmmm. Would any of those "rowdy elements" like to file a case against this person? What a lovely textbook example of defamation. I'm suspecting this is an unemployed scriptwriter, trying out some dialogue. I too want to be a "rowdy element."
Guest 29 Jul 2014, 06:43
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if we play the second fiddle for any article it will be considered as best comments if not so then it is low rated ? isn't it ?
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