Articles tagged with: Bar Council of India (BCI)

Ambitiously scheduled AIBE pushed to 25 April 2021 • Exam shouldn’t be too tough, even as closed book [DOWNLOAD OLD PAPERS]

The All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed from 21 March 2021 to 25 April 2021, according to a notification on its website (see above).

Eyeing NLS, BCI JVs with KIIT to start Indian Inst. of Law for teachers + CLE in Bhubaneswar

The Bar Council of India (BCI), hot on the heels of having announced the banning of Indian one-year LLM programmes and a greater focus on continuing legal education (CLE), has announced that through the BCI Trust it would start an Indian Institute of Law (IIL) in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, under an MOU with with the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT).

BCI calls young judicial officers ‘incapable, inept, impolite’, vows to fight for 3-year-min practice before judges’ exam

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced its intention of banning fresh law graduates from joining the judicial services directly and instead making them slog it out in the courts for three years first.

BCI to make up for lost Covid time: Two AIBEs by March 2021 + vows Jan 2021 will definitely happen

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced a second All India Bar Exam (AIBE) date to be held in 2021 and confirmed that the previously announced upcoming bar exam on 24 January 2021 will be happening on time.

BCI’s All India Bar Exam date pushed by another 2+ months to 2021 (obviously)

All India Bar Exam 15 has yet another new timetable The 15th All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed yet again, this time to early 2021. Online registrations for AIBE XV, which is held in physical test centres, have been extended to 3 December 2020, with the exam slated for 24 January 2021, acc...

All India Bar Exam: AIBE 15 postponed from 16 August indefinitely

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 ...

Non-English language CLAT rears head again with Delhi HC order (though likely a non-starter in Covid year)

CLAT is overwhelmingly likely to remain an English CLAT this year though very few other things remain certain about it

Nalsar, NUJS cancel exams, scale prior marks • +50% students may not have ‘effective access’ to online exams • BCI (mostly) agrees

Nalsar Hyderabad and NUJS Kolkata have opted not to hold online exams this semester in light of potential difficulties faced by students, in contrast to NLSIU Bangalore, which has opted for students to sit their final exams entirely online in six- to eight-hour exams spread out over a longer time period.

BCI prima facie defames young female Nalsar-Harvard-Cambridge-advocate in press release for not being a top lawyer ‘man of repute’ but ‘sinister’

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has form and a good track record in long press releases containing many strong words, but the regulator of the legal profession may have outdone itself this time with a statement to the press fired off late yesterday (see below for full release, with relevant portions from page 3).

BCI schedules AIBE XV very very tentatively for 16 August (no refunds if not)

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced 16 August 2020 as the date for the next All India Bar Exam (AIBE).

Happy-ish ending: Arun Mishra J ‘apologises 100 times’ to ‘any living creature’ and ‘younger lawyers’ hurt by him

A fter Justice Arun Mishra apparently made contempt and swift conviction threats against recently-designated senior counsel Gopal Sankaranarayanan yesterday, much of the bar came to the latter’s defence. (Much of the bar, except predictably the Bar Council of India (BCI) , whose chairman Manan Kumar...

BCI: No SC access until 4 years trial & HC exp • Make CLE compulsory • Ban on electing ‘errant arrogant criminals’ to BCs

According to The Leaflet, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has made an announcement that it was “seriously considering” introducing reforms by 2020, which would require:

Undefeated champion-chairman Mishra prevails again (for now) over HRD plans to regulate legal education away from BCI

Y et again , the Bar Council of India (BCI) remains the undefeated and uncontested champion in successive governments’ empty trash talk to strip the regulator of the power to do as it wishes with law schools in the country. According to the Hindustan Times, a Human Resource development (HRD) ministr...

Chairman Mishra educates again: Teaches HRD, NLS students about history, future and ‘huge... tooth-and-nail’ protests

Still flying high after his barnstorming speech on Sunday at the NLSIU Bangalore convocation, Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has stood up for the noble profession yet again and hit back at the government, which has floated an oft-attempted but never-achieved proposal that would drastically shake up legal education in the country.

Striking may ‘spoil’ NLSIU like BHU, JNU, students told by BCI chief MK Mishra (who really loves illegal lawyer strikes)

At NLSIU Bangalore’s first convocation under its freshly-baked vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy on Sunday also in attendance, alongside dignitaries galore, was Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman and senior counsel Manan Kumar Mishra, giving a rousing 10-minute speech.

Buy an LLB degree for Rs 2.1 lakh, agent promises in TV sting operation

According to a CNN News 18 sting operation just aired, undergraduate law degrees (amongst other subject) are available for sale by agents for the princely sum of Rs 2.1 lakh (even less than the recently revised Rs 2.3 lakh fee NLSIU Bangalore students have to pay for a single year of study).

300 new law schools later, BCI tries (again) to turn off tap for 3 years (but don’t hold your breath)

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has in a press release said it would not approve any more law schools for three years, after the number of schools had ballooned to 1,500, meaning it had approved around 25% additional law colleges since five years ago.

BCI opens All India Bar Exam XIV registrations for 25 August (subject to change at unfettered discretion, no refunds, natch)

For all budding lawyers who can’t wait to be real lawyers, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has opened online registrations for the next All India Bar Exam (AIBE), which will probably be held on 25 August 2019.

’We are not saying that rape is a good thing... but’: BCI’s MK Mishra explains ‘spirit of justice’ (for men)

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra in an interview with ThePrint has elaborated on his latest campaign to fight for ‘men’s rights’.

‘We have great respect for our women but...’: BCI chief Mishra calls for ‘men too’ march for CJI fanboys, watering down of rape laws

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has apparently written yet another open letter calling for a lot of different things at once, reported Bar & Bench: