The Bar Council of India (BCI) renewed its dubiously awarded bar exam contract to underperforming exam agency ITES Horizon, without a public tender of the contract and without holding a council meeting for members’ consensus on the renewal.

Bar Council of India (BCI) associate managing trustee Rajinder Singh Rana and former vice chairman Raju Dhanapal Raj were tried before a special CBI court in Delhi yesterday, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6 lakh to approve Global Law College in Ghaziabad.

The ninth All India Bar Examination (AIBE IX) has been postponed by almost three months to the new “tentative” date of 6 March 2016, from the originally announced 13 December 2015 exam date.

DSNLU Visakhapatnam’s vice chancellor (VC) Prof RG Babu Bhagavath Kumar has exited from his post to make way for a new VC, after the order renewing his term was cancelled. A fresh VC search committee will now be formed.

Two Indian teams scored huge points internationally to close the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 6 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills at the ELSA and Manfred Lachs Space Moot Asia Pacific round.

GNLU Gandhinagar will reward five of its most recent alumni each year with Rs 7500 each, monthly, as scholarship to practice in courts as a litigation lawyer. The GNLU Litigation Assistance and Support Scholarship (GLASS), launched by the law school this year, aims to support the litigation career o...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) stayed the use of paper posters in the Delhi University Student Union (DUSU) elections today, four days after results were announced in the 11 September poll. DU Law Centre – II first year student Nithin Chandran, who had filed the petition in the NGT for paperless ...

A Delhi university law student has asked the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to help curb the rampant misuse of paper in Delhi University Student Union (DUSU) elections which violate Lyngdoh Committee recommendations.

The HRD ministry is going to announce a framework for ranking higher institutions in India in September 2015.

NLUO Cuttack is opaque about its examination rules despite requests for clarity, alleged three NLUO LLM who had been debarred from taking their end of semester examinations for apparent shortage of attendance.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 convenor RGNUL Patiala has been called upon by the Supreme Court to provide answers in Prof Shamnad Basheer’s petition challenging the conduct of the CLAT. Former NUJS Kolkata professor and founder of NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) Bash...

The petition by academic and Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) founder Shamnad Basheer against the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) in the Supreme Court, has been listed on Friday before Justice TS Thakur, after Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu recused himself yesterday. Dattu re...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced on the official All India Bar Exam (AIBE) website that the ninth bar exam would probably be held on 13 December 2015: Examination Date AIBE-IX (Notification No: AIBE/WS/065) (31st Aug, 2015) The tentative Examination Date for AIBE-IX is 13 Dec,2015.Online...

Shamnad Basheer, former NUJS Kolkata professor and founder of NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA), has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court seeking a permanent CLAT body and transparency in the exam.

NLUO Cuttack brought home 24 jobs for this year’s class of 109 graduates, after 81 enrolled in the campus placement process. Biggest share of the pie went to law firms.

NLU Delhi’s 2015 batch saw 44 graduates getting placed out of the 56 who had signed up for campus placements, from a batch of 71. 15 out of 44 accepted offers were from the Big Six law firms and three students accepted offers from international law firms. The biggest recruiter was AZB, who hired fou...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015’s committee of “experts”, in its report on alleged errors in the CLAT 2015 LLB paper, defended the answer key by reproducing dictionary definitions of words and asserting that candidates were expected to “feel the pulse” of the question paper.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 candidate Shubham Dutt, whose petition in the Bombay high court had resulted in the formation of a new expert committee to examine alleged errors in CLAT 2015, again approached the high court for new directions. The high court, however, dismissed his plea to...

NLSIU Bangalore placed all 54 graduates who opted for campus placement in its class of 71 students who graduated in 2015. The Big Six firms took away more than half of the recruited graduates.

Kian Ganz looks at the lack of diversity in law schools and wonders why diversity is a good thing.