The Bar Council of India (BCI) was displeased with its completely “fruitless” and “meaningless” meeting with union law minister Kapil Sibal on 10 August. Sibal allegedly did not discuss any of the items on the meeting’s agenda and instead focused on the National Judicial Appointments Commission in w...

NGT bans sand mining: The National Green Tribunal banned the practice of sand mining from riverbeds without the environment ministry’s clearance, complying with a 2012 order of the Supreme Court and responding to the suspension of young IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal who had conducted a drive again...

The Bar Council of India (BCI), which is currently pushing for representation in Supreme Court and high court judges’ appointments , on Saturday staged a demonstration at Rajghat, Delhi demanding immediate withdrawal of the National Judicial Appointment Commission Bill terming it as an “affront on i...

BCI LLB age-limit challenged : A writ before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad HC has challenged the BCI’s upper age limit to appear in law entrance tests. BCI has banned those 20 or older from sitting for the five-year degree, and those 30 or above for three-year LLB courses through Clause 28 of S...

Lawyers’ lack of professionalism is affecting litigants’ cases and causing them distress, as judges ignore the problem helplessly, argued Harvard Law fellow and Centre for Policy Research visiting faculty Nick Robinson in The Hindu . A prestigious law firm employs an associate to follow a well-known...

Pune has been declared one of Maharashtra’s four official bar All India Bar Exam (AIBE) centres, after the Bar Council of India (BCI) acceded to the “persistent and convincing demands” of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa’s demands over the last two months [ Pune Mirror ] Pune has been without ...

The Bar Council of India’s (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra and vice chairman Zafar A Khan will prepare a report on the manner in which the BCI and the state bar councils could participate in the appointment process of Supreme Court judges and the chief justices of all high courts. The report is pl...

BCI v Tamil Nadu police: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has written to the chief justice of the Madras HC requesting action against cops who registered a case against 20 advocates in Tamil Nadu who had visited the state police headquarters to lodge a complaint against the Kanyakumari district police...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has rescheduled the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) that was set for 14 July to the “tentative date” of 25 August 2013, with the application deadline having been postponed to 8 July. According to a notification on the BCI website, entitled “Reschedule date All India Bar Exam...

Majority of affected candidates from Hyderabad; BCI “regrets any inconvenience caused”.

The Bar Council of India (BCI), the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa (BCMG), and the union law ministry were yesterday served with a legal notice asking that the bar councils be suspended for failing in their duty to update a “defective” law syllabus in law schools across the country.

Ineffective BCI: SC justices BS Chauhan and Dipak Mishra today said: “Bar Council has become ineffective. No action is taken against erring lawyers and we have to suffer. We are actually the victim and lawyers are making money… Lawyers think that they are above law. We are facing such situation ever...

Up to four bids have been received for the project, which was tendered for four days.

Registrations for the next exam open this Sunday.

PIL wins to allow lawyers practice while waiting for the next AIBE.

BCI & Gov must resurrect directorate of legal education that was killed due to shortage of central funds, says parliament committee. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Grievances Law and Justice wrote: “The committee fails to comprehend why the government did not accede to the r...

The Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana is now India’s first state bar council (SBC) to have photo identification on its electoral rolls to curb bogus voting. The Bar Council of India (BCI) has asked other state bar councils to follow suit, for “fair and transparent” elections. Till now the voter l...

Senior counsel Anil Divan wants practical position paper on liberalisation from government.

The Gujarat High Court today issued notice to the Bar Council of India (BCI) over bar exam delays, reported TOI.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has called for all lawyers in the country to abstain from work on Monday, 11 March 2013, “in protest against the brutal assault on Lawyers in Jaipur and Chandigarh”. The notification on the BCI’s website adds: “The Lawyers all across the country (except the Lawyers of ...