The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium has published a grievance redressal form on its website allowing candidates to raise grievances, if any, about the 2020 CLAT one final time. Excerpt from grievance redressal form The PDF form and instructions are available here . In summary, the form a...

As the Supreme Court is about to begin hearing the challenge by petitioners in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) shortly, the CLAT Consortium has just uploaded the first provisional seat allotments, following its counselling process. Note: Latest updates, including the latest CLAT press release, ...

T he 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) convenor Prof Balraj Chauhan has released a statement on behalf of the consortium, assuring candidates of the overall integrity of the exam and responding to “genuine concerns”. Apparently in response to our analysis published yesterday of the rank list , w...

Scoop: Justices Bhushan, Reddy, Shah to get an update on what has happened since NLAT

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has released the consolidated merit list including the results of 53,226 candidates today, amongst whom a whopping 25% (around 13,300 candidates) scored fewer than 18.5 points (equivalent to 13% out of the 147 maximum points available in the 2020 CLAT).

CLAT press release celebraties CLAT 2020 T he 2020 CLAT has been nothing if not dramatic. Besides the short-lived National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT), there is now a pending Supreme Court petition by complainants about the results. And as yet, there is still no official confirmation from the CLAT on h...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), Bar & Bench has reported. Update 14:30 : We have embedded a copy of the petition below. The petitioners, who are a “bunch of CLAT 2020 aspirants” who are unnamed in the article, with the petition filed ...

T he Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has released a statement following the expert committee’s review of objections received by candidates. The review made conclusions on several different issues, communicated in a detailed two-page note, including: dropping 3 questions and changing the answer keys...

Potential user experience (UX) issues in the design of the computerised Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) exam 2020 may have caused issues for potentially hundreds of candidates or more.

The Calcutta high court has today issued an interim stay in the writ petition challenging the state government’s 30% domicile reservation at NUJS Kolkata.

86.2% attend out of 68,833 candidates Update 18:20 : CLAT has released a press statement that only 68,833 candidates had downloaded admit cards (out of around 77,000 who had registered for the CLAT). Out of those, 86.2% appeared for the exam across India, which works out to 59,334 candidates (around...

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 ...

We can reveal that NLU Delhi’s governing council (GC) has just confirmed the next VC with Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao, the current vice chancellor (VC) of NLU Cuttack in Odisha, according to two authoritative sources.

Prof Ranbir Singh, NLU Delhi’s founding vice chancellor (VC) who has served in the position for 11 years, is due to retire tomorrow (23 September), though he will continue to stay at the NLU as professor emeritus from 24 September.

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...