The NLU Delhi entrance test, the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), has taken place today at physical test centres via a computer-based test. NLU Delhi’s alternative to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has generally drawn upwards of 20,000 candidates, though this year NLU Delhi has refused to ...

NLSIU Bangalore has reacted to today’s Supreme Court decision striking down the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), noting that it would re-join the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) as well as issue partial refunds, implementing the judgment “in letter and spirit”.

T he Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) exam to be held on 28 September 2020 would go ahead as scheduled despite the lockdown in Chhattisgarh and its capital Raipur. Raipur, which is host to the national law school HNLU Raipur, is one of 10 districts in the state that have been locked down to curtail ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that NLSIU Bangalore’s National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) exam as invalid, accepting nearly all arguments of the petitioners and rejecting nearly all of NLS’.

The second day of the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) hearings in the Supreme Court is due to start around 11:30am today. We’ll be liveblogging as we had yesterday , when it was an action- and also humour-packed hearing. LiveLaw and Bar & Bench are again livetweeting the proceedings, we’ll be...

NLSIU Bangalore has furtively updated the 64 frequently asked questions (FAQs) relating to the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) on its website to remove mention of its decision to drop the the so-called “Safe Assessment Browser (SAB) Tool” from its online home-proctored entrance test.

T he Supreme Court has been hearing the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) challenges since 10:30. 17 September 2020 : Day 2 liveblog now being updated here . LiveLaw and Bar & Bench are live tweeting the hearing held via video conference. Senior advocate Nidhesh Gupta has been arguing on behalf...

A head of tomorrow’s second Supreme Court hearing about the future of NLSIU Bangalore’s National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), Bar & Bench and LiveLaw ( of the petitioners’ case , and of the NLSIU case ) have published summaries of the affidavits filed by the parties. Bar & Bench, in particula...

NLSIU Bangalore has stated in a press release that “some cases of examination malpractice deserve criminal investigation and the University has already lodged a criminal complaint against some actors”, in relation to its controversial National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) that saw more than 27,500 candidates.

NLSIU Bangalore has made a press release about the conclusion of the dramatic retakes of the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) today, claiming a successful run yet again but declining to confirm how many actually sat for the re-takes.

From noon today some lucky / unlucky candidates for NLSIU Bangalore have been taking up the offer of a chance to re-take the controversial National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), Saturday’s exam date of which had been mired in technical errors and reports of few if any serious technological measures that could curtail cheating.

As controversial National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) re-takes for candidates who had issues will be underway from noon today (14 September), the Jharkhand high court petition challenging the exam has been submitted to the Supreme Court with an intervention application, to join the matter that is set to be heard on Wednesday, 16 September.

NLSIU Bangalore has made a press release about the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) that it concluded today for 24,603 registered candidates for its flagship undergraduate LLB programme.

We have just witnessed a live demonstration that the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), the online home-proctored admissions test announced eight days ago by NLSIU Bangalore that has taken place today, is impossible to conduct without significant risk of cheating.

Yes, only eight days after the exam was announced on 3 September, following three writ petitions and a partial stay on results in the Supreme Court yesterday, plus a whole lot of last minute tweaks and some technology Snafus, the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) of NLSIU Bangalore is actually happening.

Teething issues are to be expected for an exam announced with such short notice but the simulation of the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) admissions test to NLSIU Bangalore today was dogged by myriad issues.

While the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) for admission to NLSIU Bangalore’s LLB and LLM programmes was launched yesterday and NLS has announced a fully-proctored simulation to take place tomorrow, with the actual exam on Saturday (12 September), serious questions remain about whether the university will catch any of the inevitable cheating attempts (besides the plethora other issues, some of which have been highlighted in our Claxit live blog).

To some extent, NLSIU Bangalore can’t be faulted for the lack of quantity in its communication about the last-minute announcement of the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), with its frequently asked questions (FAQ) page having seen an average of half a dozen or more updates per day.

NLSIU Bangalore has relaxed the technical requirements of its National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) that is happening in four days, to include more operating systems, to require less internet bandwidth and, in seemingly rare cases, allow candidates to take the test in test centres in 14 cities. Test centres for all? Or just for some?

T he Karnataka high court has stayed NLSIU Bangalore ‘s 25% domicile reservation in the interim, according to LiveLaw and Bar & Bench . NLSIU should prepare a new seat matrix without the reservation and the Karnataka government should not notify the NLSIU amendment act, the court held. However,...