Articles tagged with: bar exam

AIBE 8 results are out, 6 weeks after bar exam

The results for the eighth All India Bar Exam (AIBE) have been published on the official AIBE website.

Fail All India Bar Exam for 3 years and lose your practising licence: Madras HC

If advocates have not passed the Bar Council of India (BCI) All India Bar Exam (AIBE) within three years of enrolment, their advocates licence “has to be necessarily revoked”, held a Madras high court bench of chief justice SK Kaul and Justice TS Sivagnanam, reported The Hindu . The bench added that...

How can BCI champion legal reform if its chairman has such attitude? LiveLaw, The Hoot, run stories on BCI transparency

Manan Kumar Mishra
Manan Kumar Mishra
Two publications, Livelaw, which caters to lawyers, and The Hoot, which primarily has journalists as an audience, have written about Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra’s legal notice against Legally India.

LI responds to notice of BCI’s Mishra: You gave bar exam to company with Rs 0 revenues, did no due diligence & worse

Legally India has responded to the legal notice sent by Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra on 25 May 2015 to Legally India, Kian Ganz and Prachi Shrivastava.

BCI sends Legally India 6-page defamation notice over bar exam RTI story (cc’s PM, all judges & journalists)

'Real face', provided on request
'Real face', provided on request
The Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has sent a letter to Legally India and 147 other recipients, including journalists, the President and Prime Minister of India, all Supreme Court judges and high court judges and others.

RTI’d minutes of BCI reveal how multi-crore bar exam contract was awarded to mystery 5th bidder ITeS Horizon #longread

ITES Horizon: ca 2012
ITES Horizon: ca 2012
The BCI’s 2012 meeting minutes regarding the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) have revealed details of the process by which the contract to conduct the fourth and subsequent AIBEs was awarded to ITeS Horizon.

Six months after LI’s ‘mischief’ RTI, BCI finally shares 1,600 pages of meeting minutes

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has complied with Legally India’s 20 October 2014 right to information (RTI) request on 20 April 2015, supplying around 1,600 pages of documents.

CIC orders BCI to publish all past All India Bar Exam (AIBE) question papers online

“The Central Information Commission has directed the Bar Council of India to proactively post on its website the question papers and keys of the All India CIC Bar Examination for the benefit of young lawyers,” reported the PTI . Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said: It is reported that ar...

Surprise: Council decides to postpone bar exam (AIBE) by TWO+ months to 24 May 2015 [UPDATE-1: Schedule released]

The eighth All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed from its scheduled date of 15 March 2015 to 24 May 2015 “as per the Council decision”

Textbook obfuscation: How the BCI dealt with one lawyer’s RTI by misreading & ignoring 89% of queries (twice)

How to reject RTIs and alienate lawyers
How to reject RTIs and alienate lawyers
Last year the Bar Council of India (BCI) rejected a lawyer’s right to information (RTI) request and appeal on the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) by simply not answering the majority of queries.

Thin ice: BCI forces bar exam takers to waive RTI rights & pay BCI's costs if losing legal challenge

Screenshot 2015-01-07 12.50.39
Screenshot 2015-01-07 12.50.39
The Bar Council of India (BCI) requires lawyers who take the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) to waive their statutory and fundamental rights.

Thin ice: BCI forces bar exam takers to waive RTI rights & pay BCI's costs if losing legal challenge

Screenshot 2015-01-07 12.50.39
Screenshot 2015-01-07 12.50.39
The Bar Council of India (BCI) requires lawyers who take the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) to waive their statutory and fundamental rights.

AIBE VIII to be held on 15 March 2015

The All Indian Bar Examination (AIBE VIII) will be held on the 15 March 2015, reported Bar & Bench, quoting BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra.

Candidates will be able to apply online from tomorrow. AIBE VII was held on 7 September and its results were declared in November.

LI asks BCI chairman MK Mishra why he’s trying to hide BCI minutes: Listen to his response

BCI: Needs more sunshine & transparency
BCI: Needs more sunshine & transparency
This is a short story and video of how LI tried and failed getting the BCI chairman to be more transparent.

AIBE VII results are out (but Delhi certificates of practice still MIA after 10 months)

Results of the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) VII, held on 7 September, have been declared by the Bar Council of India (BCI) on the official AIBE website . Lawyers enrolled with the Delhi bar council (DBC) who passed the sixth AIBE, held on 19 January 2014, have not yet been given a certificate of...

AIBE takers in Jammu & Kashmir get raincheck

Candidates taking tomorrow’s All India Bar Exam (AIBE) in Jammu & Kashmir don’t have to turn up tomorrow because of heavy rain, said a notice on the official website: “Due to heavy rain in Jammu & Kashmir area, if any candidate is not able to appear for the AIBE-VII Examination on 7th Sep,...

AIBE takers in Jammu & Kashmir get raincheck

Candidates taking tomorrow’s All India Bar Exam (AIBE) in Jammu & Kashmir don’t have to turn up tomorrow because of heavy rain, said a notice on the official website: “Due to heavy rain in Jammu & Kashmir area, if any candidate is not able to appear for the AIBE-VII Examination on 7th Sep,...

Bar Exam 7 registration date extended to 13 August

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has extended the registration date for the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) to 13 August, according to a notice dated today (25 July) on the official AIBE website. Registrations were scheduled to end today after the bar exam date was postponed to 7 September 2014.

AIBE-VII postponed for Kerala

The seventh All India Bar Examination (AIBE – VII) has been postponed for candidates appearing from Cochin from 7 September to a yet undecided date. The Bar Council of India (BCI) said in its notification that the exam was postponed in Kerala due to Thirunoam celebrations on that date. The notificat...

RTI reveals: BCI & contractor made record Rs 10+ cr out of 2 bar exams in 2012/13 as pass rates rose to highest ever levels

AIBE
AIBE
In the fourth and fifth All India Bar Exams (AIBE), 80 per cent and 73 per cent respectively passed the exam out of a total of 58,631 applicants.