Further to our initial report in May of a complete revamp of PhD programmes, NLSIU Bangalore has now finalised Rs 74.55 lakh of funding from General Electric (GE), which will sponsor a total of three PhD students for three years.

NLU Delhi‘s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) has bitten the bullet and picked a date for its all-new offline exam.

Scoop: This latest postponement will now push the CLAT nearly to October

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced a new date for the postponed All India Bar Exam (AIBE), setting it a conservative date for the exam to be physically held in exam centres, on 8 November 2020, more than two months away.

A faked Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium notification (see above) has been making the rounds on social media, purporting postponement of the 2020 CLAT.

Exclusive: The CLAT had last week been postponed indefinitely though now has a tentative date again, less than one month away*

JGLS Sonepat has convinced 10 senior advocates to each teach 10 separate eight-week online credit courses about various facets of litigation for up to 200 final year law students, as it has scheduled to start its first years from 1 September (see below).

Exclusive: CLAT now unlikely to be held any time soon*

F ollowing NLUJAA Guwahati vice chancellor (VC) Prof JS Patil’s temporary stepping down that we had first reported on 26 July, a new interim VC has been appointed, as first reported by LiveLaw yesterday. According to an email sent out by the registrar within the university yesterday, judicial office...

N LSIU Bangalore law graduate Jeydev CS has come fifth place in the prestigious and notoriously competitive Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination 2019, according to Bar & Bench on Twitter . The strong showing from at least one lawyer (though there are likely to be mo...

A round 77,000 candidates have registered for the 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020, NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy told the Times of India . Of those, 68,000 had registered for the undergraduate exam alone, while the separate postgraduate CLAT exam saw around...

Students have understandably been on tenterhooks about whether the CLAT will happen on its scheduled date; equally understandably, the consortium has tough if not impossible decisions to make

T he All India Bar Exam (AIBE) scheduled for 16 August 2020 has been postponed indefinitely, with the application date extended to 31 August 2020, reported LiveLaw . That is not a surprise: even in May when the Bar Council of India (BCI) had announced 16 August as a date, we had predicted that exam ...

Unlock, relock A ccording to to the latest notification by the Ministry of Home Affairs to try and get life back to a semblance of normality, which lifts the night curfew from 1 August amongst other things, also states that colleges and educational institutions would remain (physically) closed until...

After our report on Monday (27 July) of how cheating was practically possible and/or attempted (though not necessarily successfully) by a number of candidates taking the home-proctored Symbiosis Law Admissions Test (SLAT) 2020, a very daring / foolhardy and/or public-minded candidate who uploaded his entire cheating attempt to YouTube, has now removed the video and disowned his cheating attempt.

After initially criticising the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) national law universities’ approach of holding centre-based law school admissions tests as everything from not “patriotic” and carrying the “risk” of “mass infection” of candidates and their families, NLU Delhi has done an about turn and announced that it too would hold a centre-based physical test.

NLU Delhi’s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) exam has been postponed again from 18 August to an unspecified future date.

Reports and attempts have surfaced of how easy it had been to apparently circumvent some of the security measures in place for the home-proctored Symbiosis Law Admissions Test (SLAT), which was taken by around 20,000 aspirants this year for its five-year BA, BBA, LLB and LLB Honours programmes, according to an official with Symbiosis.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted 10 to salaried partner level, as first reported Bar & Bench.

NLUJAA Guwahati vice-chancellor (VC) Prof JS Patil has gone on leave pending the resolution of the sexual harassment allegations against him in an FIR filed by his neighbours.