Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has promised that identification cards allowing All India Bar Exam (AIBE) candidates to enter the exam hall will be uploaded on Monday (3 December), while also confirming that the exam would be a three-hour open book exam - half-an-hour shorter than the first three exams.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published sample questions for the upcoming 9 December All India Bar Exam (AIBE), which focuses heavily on general knowledge and history, while having changed the number of questions per topic.

NLSIU Bangalore and NLU Delhi were the big winners, hauling in 40 and 30 Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 points respectively over the last weekend of two big tier 3 qualifying moots: the Stetson South India and the Oxford Media Moot qualifiers to major international moots.

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra revealed in an interview with legal website Bar & Bench today that its All India Bar Exam (AIBE) contractor ITES Horizon could get paid up to Rs 2.1 crore ($378,000) for assisting with the exam, while parts of BCI revenues from the exam would go to the welfare of lawyers.

He added that the BCI would not provide any study materials this time and would release model questions three or four days before the exam on 9 December.

Exclusive: Two lawyers – Arushi Garg from Nalsar Hyderabad and Anupama Kumar from NLSIU Bangalore - have won the prestigious Rhodes scholarship alongside three non-lawyers.

Now liveblogging: Stetson South India qualifier moot from NLU Orissa MPL 4 NLU Orissa in Cuttack is live blogging the qualifiers for the world famous Stetson moot – one of the top moots of the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills. Click here to follow the action of you...

Now liveblogging: Stetson South India qualifier moot from NLU Orissa MPL 4 NLU Orissa in Cuttack is live blogging the qualifiers for the world famous Stetson moot – one of the top moots of the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills. Click here to follow the action of you...

Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) released a statement on its website that candidates who have enrolled as an advocate between 17 and 24 November 2012, could still register for the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) until 24 November.

NUJS Kolkata professor Shamnad Basheer, who is the HRD ministry’s chair professor for intellectual property, argued over two days in his first-of-its-kind academic intervention in the landmark Novartis-Glivec patent hearing in the Supreme Court. Swiss drug maker Novartis had approached the SC in Sep...

Exclusive: After a three-day outage, the allindiabarexamination.com website would be online again within hours, the Bar Council of India secretary told Legally India, while ITES Horizon Pvt Ltd, the company contracted by the BCI to assist on the All India Bar Exam (AIBE), has not been possible to contact.

The Bar Council of India extended the deadline for submission of the application form for the now postponed 9 December AIBE . The notification for postponement of the AIBE to 9 December now reads: It is to notify that, due to unavoidable reason, Muharram and several requests received from candidates...

Three persons of Indian origin holding foreign undergraduate degrees in law registered for this year’s Bar Council of India (BCI) qualifying exam to practice in India, but only one – an LLB degree holder from Cambridge University - passed.

ILS Pune fetched its first gold this season at the NLIU Juris Corp National Corporate Law Moot Court Competition and leapt up the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 ladder from 17th to seventh place. RGNUL Patiala was runner-up with a strong shoulder-to-shoulder performance that secured its second MPL silver.

Bangalore University (BU) will create two campus-security related committees and provide security equipment such as 100 CCTV cameras, spending around Rs 3.82 lakh on the Jnanabharathi campus - on which NLSIU Bangalore is situated. The measures follow the alleged rape of a student of NLSIU Bangalore ...

Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) scheduled for 25 November 2012, to 9 December because of a religious event and candidates’ requests.

NLSIU Bangalore asks for signatures on petitions to Karnataka state home secretary for tightened campus security, and to Press Council of India (PCI) to direct the press to cover sexual offences sensitively. The students had resolved to submit the petitions in public demonstrations last week . [Peti...

JGLS Sonipat, with the smallest class size out of all law schools in Legally India’s campus placement stories this year, achieved near 100 per cent campus placement for its first graduating batch of 23 students.

Live blog from Saturday: 3rd NLIU Juris Corp National Corporate Law Moot MPL 4 From tomorrow (Saturday), NLIU Bhopal is live blogging the prestigious Juris Corp National Corporate Law Moot. Follow how your friends and mooting enemies are performing through the rounds, right from the comfort of your ...

ULC Bangalore defeated HNLU Raipur at the sixth Pro Bono Enviro moot at Soel Chennai on Saturday, but Raipur swept away every other prize at the competition and displaced NUJS Kolkata in second place in the Herbert Smith Freehills-sponsored Mooting Premiere League (MPL) 4 standings.

NLSIU Bangalore students resolved to petition the Press Council of India (PCI) on the unethical and sensationalist reporting of the alleged rape of a student of the college, by several newspapers last week. They also staged a protest demanding tighter security around their Nagarbhavi Bangalore campu...