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 may have violated its own establishing act by launching the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) admissions test without getting the sign-off of the academic council (AC), which we understand has not met since February of this year.

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?

The return of Venkata Rao to NLSIU J ust when you thought the twists and turns in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) and NLSIU Bangalore saga could not get any more dramatic, the predecessor of current NLSIU Bangalore vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Prof Venkata Rao , has filed a wr...

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,...

An NLSIU student, who has requested anonymity, has received more than 220 responses online from candidates who were interested in joining a national law school this year, but who were facing problems due to the NLSIU’s plans for an online-only proctored entrance test. Legally India has seen a copy of the Google form responses. A selection of these has been shared in the article below, but identities of respondents have been anonymised. We have reached out to the NLSIU administration for comment.

The cold war that has mostly been fought via press releases between the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) Consortium and NLSIU Bangalore, after the latter’s shock decision to hold its independent entrance test last week, has escalated.

T he Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium has concluded its emergency meeting today following NLSIU Bangalore’s surprise exit from the admissions test to conduct its own, and has decided to pressure NLSIU to come back into the fold. NLSIU has quasi-responded with a press release , showing lit...

The first of what are widely expected to be many writ petitions has been filed this morning before the Jharkhand high court at Ranchi on behalf of five Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) aspirants against the new NLSIU Bangalore admissions test.

NLSIU Bangalore has decided to conduct separate admissions to its BA, LLB and LLM programmes this year, outside the oft-postponed Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), on 12 September 2020 with a week for applicants to register for 4% of the fees of the CLAT.