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In any case, hiring trends seem to be on a downturn irrespective.
LAWYERS BEWARE!
But at the end of the day, no one is your friend there. And that is fine. That is all you have to understand and digest. Remind yourself of the reasons you are there in the first place and that is the reality not just of law schools, but if nay institution where everyone gets in after hyper competition. This notion that people are better in such institutions is a myth. Most of these places are pressure chambers, focus on getting the best out of it and building mental resilience. Being alone is not a bad thing, it can help you to get your priorities sorted.
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Poor infra compounds, unimaginative industries atrophy risk.
Being led by conglomerates dont help as the conglomerate discount grows.
Our current model is old and very much tailored for 1900s.
They lack the maturity to handle clients.
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To the one who wrote this disgusting crap: do we have an act like the (now-repealed) UK Local Government Act 1988 which made illegal the "promotion" of homosexuality in certain circumstances? What exactly is your problem in life? If nothing wrong has been done, why do you have a problem? If you can't be civil, why can't you just keep quiet? You are just taking advantage of the anonymity this website affords you to kick down? Do you know that had this been a non-anonymous comment, you could have been accused of engaging in conduct that lowers the confidence of the public in the legal profession? Or are you so drunk on power that you don't care? Haven't you realised that homosexuality has been decriminalised in India?
When you already are going to pass BALLB, why on earth would you want to pursue another undergrad degree?
If you really were confident enough to get to UK univ., then you shoul have already tried for BCL, or other LLMs...what narcissistic rubbish was your post, buddy?
p.s. sorry for the lang., though!
As for scholarships, those are few and far between and not in very high amounts, and each uni has its individual processes for those, look them up and make relevant enquiries. Therefore, my answer would require a bit of a caveat: "absolutely worth it if you can get scholarships or have the financial amounts needed to make such a huge commitment or a mixture of both". At the uni I attended, most of the scholarships were set aside for UK students from the bottom 15 to 20% income brackets of UK households. One way that might help with scholarships is doing very well on the LNAT.
Considering you've already studied law and got good internships on your CV, you might just find that you're having an easier time of it than your mates. But be warned, the fight for first year schemes, vac schemes and TCs is going to be a huge one and very psychologically draining. Be braced for many lonely, rainy days in your student housing where your blood pressure is at an all time high, awaiting that sweet email with a "yes" after you've made loads of applications, and then suddenly you've been brought to earth with a jolt because of law firm application rejections coming in. Even for the UK LLB students with the best profiles (be they home or international), for every vac scheme offer there are three (or more) rejections. That may sound scary but abstract at this stage, but when you've done all the graft of getting through, working hard and doing well at your law studies at your UK uni, having made the financial commitments etc etc and spent all those hours drafting, re-drafting and re-re-redrafting your applications over and over again, having done mock interview practice with your mates and your uni's careers office, it feels pretty shitty to get those rejections, especially if you don't end up making all that many friends and your family is living 5000 miles away. The trouble is, you'll have to just grit your teeth and summon up the determination to come back and fight another day (application cycle) and potentially even be ready to settle for having to get on a graduate visa (often wrongly called a "PSW visa" by students and universities alike) using which you can get something like paralegal experience after your LLB before getting a TC; even with this, if you come after 1 January 2027 (likely in your case), you will get only 18 months on your graduate visa instead of the two years that my lot had when we came a few years ago. Some of this may apply a little less to you, especially given your background, than both subsets of your mates: those (British and international) who've just come out of school/whose first degree is law, and those (British and international) who've taken other degrees at university, but in non-law subjects.
In any case, make up your mind soon whether you want to do this or not. Tuition fees for international students for a UK education are gonna shoot up like you've never seen before in the coming years. The government's being a bitch regarding immigration. They may be Labour, but they are like Boris Johnson of the Conservatives in that they are fantacists. They want to, as Boris did, have their cake and eat it. That is, they want to prevent British students from paying higher tuition, therefore keeping fundamentally the model where the system would have problems if the foreign money was cut off at source. And yet they want to reduce immigration, and one way they want to do that is by trying to reduce international student numbers. The way they have found to solve this logical contradiction is by imposing a tax on the universities based on the number of international students they take, which kicks in after, I think, the first 100 international students a uni recruits. That amount was set at the last budget at £925 per student. Remember your Economics 101, done either at school or at university: a uni doesn't absorb that tax. It passes it on. To whom? Students. Take that into account before getting into this. The tax kicks in after August 2028.
Finally, regarding your question of LOR, there are plenty of students from India on LinkedIn who've done previous uni degrees in India before UK LLB. Ask them, because I am honestly not sure in your case where would be the best for you to get those from. For those like me, it was certainly school.
PS: Not sure if this applies anymore, but before I went to the UK, there was a lot of talk about how Indian students who went with Indian board qualifications like CBSE were looked down on by admissions tutors at many of the elite names you mentioned (including both Oxford and LSE). I think this is less of a problem now, but still worth keeping in mind, I would think...
My thought of doing a reputed foreign LLB, is for two reasons. The first one is a job at Magic Circle or Silver Circle law firms. The second one is self esteem needs (sometimes I tend to have thoughts that I have never experienced an excellent pedagogy in my college and that has made me a mediocre person. And that only an LLB at a world famous University can change me)
Btw the mail says there is no stipend attached? Does it mean unpaid labour? 😭
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Outlook is also better on windows than MacOS, more features, especially certain super important features like justified alignment - are not available on MacOS, imagine this, as a lawyer sending emails which are not even aligned properly. Even A0's don't make that mistake. This one point alone is reason enough for rejecting Mac tbh.
That being said, yes the fantastic build quality, long battery life, superb display, near zero lags or glitches - I do see the allure, I myself love mac, just that for my lawyer work stuff it's not a good fit. Windows is better suited to what we do.
Please advise me on the procedure which does not involve taking PQE discount.
AI makes horrible Arbitrators
I’m a student at a ▮▮▮ based law college. During a drinking binge, my group met and got drunk with a bunch of seniors at the usual college drinking spot. I remember only flashes of the night after that and woke up in my room with the clothes on the next day, but very sore (after inter course type) and with random bruises on my body.
My roommate said we both came in after drinking, but I feel very weird about not remembering what happened and my friends were also sloshed and don’t remember much.
The seniors we drank with are known trouble makers, but have been good to our group, so I don’t want to accuse them without any proof. I’m scared that something happened to me that night which I can’t remember given my body’s condition. What do I do?
2. Come speak to the members of the Delhi Bar to know how they really feel, and how things really here are and how most of us feel about each of the judges.
3. The current president of the Bar has represented Kejriwal previously on multiple occasions. I do not think it would be appropriate for him to make any such comments - it would appear very improper. My resentments with the Prez. are about his inability to take a stand/lack of a spine. Even then, I do find him to be a man of integrity. I do not think he would want to muddy his reputation by making any political comments.
4. Kejriwal actually was not "questioning the probity of" the judge. He said there is apprehension of bias, especially given that similar findings against him have been given in the previous cases (including Kejru's WP challenging his arrest. Apprehension of bias is not the same as questioning someone's 'probity'.
4.a. Especially when his first ground was that detailed findings were given in previous judgments saying offence was prima facie made out + on the first date it was said that impugned order is prima facie wrong. Charge/discharge anyway has to be determined at a prima facie standard - so that finding already stands given. (Sidenote: yes, yes. Technically standard of charge/discharge is "grave suspicion" - Dilawar Kurane, Sajjan Singh et al - but that's being pedantic).
Anyway, no point commenting on merits/demerits of the recusal application itself. But worthwhile to point out that seeking recusal is not automatically the same as casting aspersions on a judge.
What if someone switches their UNI during vacancies and still remain in the top 20, would they get ABS ?