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BCI withdraws school quota request: letter was admin error

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Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) today retracted its 5 January request to the administrators of all Indian law schools to reserve at least two seats in each course for BCI nominees.

Bhopal, Jaipur 9 Dec AIBE re-exam on Sunday

The 9 December AIBE, which was cancelled for all candidates appearing in Jaipur and some appearing in Bhopal, will now be held on 13 January at Jaipur and Jabalpur, respectively. The exam on 9 December was cancelled due to shortage of question papers, after candidates without an admit card appeared ...

Law school heads balk at BCI ‘request’ to reserve seats for BCI nominees

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Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has sent a letter to the administrators of all Indian law schools, asking them to reserve two places on each course for BCI nominees.

January 2013: Latest calls for papers and essay competitions

Project Cloud’s latest competitions and calls for papers, including beautiful writing, GLC Vyas, international jurists and more…

AIL Mohali stops the shame with pepper-spray fundraiser

AIL Mohali first year students organised a fundraiser under the banner “stop the shame”, in collaboration with the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) , in Chandigarh on 25 December. Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary, Madhvi Sandhu, Nimisha Menon, Arundhati Mishra and Manik Gupta organised a two part fundraise...

NLS now liveblogging TIOL Tax Law Moot & Conference 2013

NLS now liveblogging final of inaugural TIOL Tax Law Moot & Conference 2013 NLS now liveblogging final of inaugural TIOL Tax Law Moot & Conference 2013 From today at 1pm, NLSIU Bangalore’s Moot Court Society is bringing you a live blog of the very first NLS-TIOL Tax Law Moot Trophy from th...

NUJS EC gets fortune-teller on W.B CM’s recommendation

NUJS Kolkata gets socio-astro palmist Nemai Bannerjee as its latest executive committee member after a recommendation by West Bengal chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee for his appointment. Bannerjee had predicted the CM’s landslide victory in the 2011 assembly elections, as well as Indira Gandhi’s ...

NLUO VC Krishnamurthy resigns to join Pondicherry University as VC

Eight months-old NLUO Cuttack vice chancellor (VC) Dr Chandra Krishnamurthy will join as Pondicherry University’s (PU) VC this week, replacing Dr JAK Tareen. The search committee that selected Krishnamurthy at PU comprised of North Maharashtra University ex-vice chancellor Dr RS Mali, Jawaharlal Neh...

The All India Bar Exam (AIBE): a regulator’s rocky road

Former ITES Noida Office, last month, as set out on its website
Former ITES Noida Office, last month, as set out on its website
In last week’s Mint: Most non-lawyers will not have heard of AIBE, but one week this month, more people in India searched Google for the term than for Sonia Gandhi, according to Google Trends. As a pure exercise in branding, the less than two-year-old AIBE—or to use its full name, the All India Bar Examination—should be considered a huge success for the Bar Council of India (BCI). That can’t be said of the exam itself.

RMLNLU VC Balraj Chauhan headed to holiday, new-VC hunt begins

Balraj Chauhan
Balraj Chauhan
RMLNLU Lucknow vice chancellor (VC) Balraj Chauhan will finish his five-year tenure as VC at the university on 2 January. The university has formed a search committee to appoint the new VC, and has invited applications for the post latest by Monday.

After RMLNLU death, Allahabad HC condemns admin for never-ending trial of late student

RMLNLU: Not all green grass blue skies
RMLNLU: Not all green grass blue skies
Exclusive: The High Court of Allahabad chastised RMLNLU Lucknow’s administration for its ill-handling of disciplinary proceedings against its student - late Sahil Zaidi, who suffered an unnatural death in his final year, during the pendency of the proceedings two years after they were initiated against him.

NLSIU locks in students at 9 to keep safe from leopards & Bangalore crime

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Leopards
NLSIU Bangalore authorities yesterday issued a warning to students’ parents that they would not tolerate any resistance or protests from students against the newly-imposed 9pm curfew that had been instated on campus on 27 November.

RMLNLU wins Stetson North as NLU Delhi, HNLU keep 2nd, 3rd in Mooting Premier League

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MPL4-HSF-200
RMLNLU Lucknow charged ahead to victory on 2 December as it defeated NLU Delhi in the finals of the North India Rounds of the 17th Stetson International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition.

AIBE cancelled in Jaipur, re-exam for Jaipur, Bhopal after paper shortage

The All India Bar Exam (AIBE) was cancelled mid-way yesterday at the exam centre in Jaipur, Rajasthan due to a shortage of around 900 question papers and was conducted incompletely, but not cancelled, at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh’s centre where there were 300 papers too little.

Run Bhopal Run: NLIU reaches out to gas tragedy victims

Students of NLIU Bhopal organised a run to show support for the victims of year 1984’s Bhopal Gas Tragedy on 2 December, through their student-run organisation People United for Law, Education and Rehabilitation (PULER). PULER partnered with rehabilitation organisation Rajeev Smriti Gas Peedit Punar...

AIBE Day: Only mild chaos as possibly 32,000+ students breeze through 4th bar exam

Breaking: The fourth All India Bar Examination (AIBE) in Delhi’s nearest test centre in Noida, saw 500 candidates turn up beyond the expected 3,200 candidates for whom seating was planned, while most candidates finished the exam early and reported a fairly low difficulty level.

Can’t download AIBE hall pass? BCI offers solution & increases bar exam centres to 59

AIBE hall
AIBE hall
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published the full list of 59 All India Bar Exam (AIBE) test venues – increased from 44 venues in the first exam – and clarified that those examinees who have been unable to download their admit cards, could sit the exam after showing four documents.

All India Bar Exam (AIBE) admit cards now available for download

Hall passes for the fourth AIBE that will take place in five days (9 December) are now available for download via the official AIBE website, with an enrolment or application number.

AIBE website admit card download link.

Please do share your experience in the comments.

No AIBE admit cards online yesterday; Promised for tomorrow

BCI: 30,000 admit cards on the way
BCI: 30,000 admit cards on the way
The admit cards for the 9 December All India Bar Examination (AIBE) which were scheduled to be uploaded on the AIBE’s website yesterday, will now be uploaded tomorrow as per a modification in Sunday’s notification on the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) website.

First win for NLU-J at Commonwealth Moot India rounds as Nalsar scores best memo at FDI

MPL 4: Where Indian mooting lives
MPL 4: Where Indian mooting lives
NLU Jodhpur won its first moot in the fourth season of the Mooting Premier League (MPL), sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills, beating AKK New Law Academy Pune in the finals of the National Rounds of the Commonwealth Moot Court Competition 2012, which was last held two years ago.