The petition by academic and Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) founder Shamnad Basheer against the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) in the Supreme Court, has been listed on Friday before Justice TS Thakur, after Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu recused himself yesterday. Dattu re...

Shamnad Basheer, former NUJS Kolkata professor and founder of NGO Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA), has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court seeking a permanent CLAT body and transparency in the exam.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015’s committee of “experts”, in its report on alleged errors in the CLAT 2015 LLB paper, defended the answer key by reproducing dictionary definitions of words and asserting that candidates were expected to “feel the pulse” of the question paper.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 candidate Shubham Dutt, whose petition in the Bombay high court had resulted in the formation of a new expert committee to examine alleged errors in CLAT 2015, again approached the high court for new directions. The high court, however, dismissed his plea to...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 expert panel, which was formed twice to examine alleged errors in the CLAT 2015 question papers, was composed of secret members. CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow rejected a right to information (RTI) request for the names of the members of the panel which had dismissed allegations that one-fifth of the CLAT 2015 LLB paper was error-ridden.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 expert committee has found that the CLAT 2015 LLB question paper has no errors, the Punjab & Haryana high court was told yesterday in a writ filed by CLAT 2015 candidate Agrima Lailer through advocate Ravinder Malik.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 expert panel will look into three new erroneous questions in addition to the 18 errors already referred to it, following the Rajasthan high court’s second order to this effect. The HC’s Jodhpur bench followed the Bombay high court to send a list of question ...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 office, which was closed by the convenor on 6 July, will have to reopen to refer yet another 15 erroneous CLAT 2015 questions to an expert committee, following the Rajasthan high court’s latest order. Rajasthan HC justice NK Sharma disposed of CLAT 2015 cand...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 admission process was closed on Tuesday before the Bombay high court order that could result in a merit list reshuffle could be fully implemented.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) founding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was publicly disclosed by HNLU Raipur in 2012, three years before CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow claimed exemption under Right to Information (RTI) for the same MoU.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 convenor will again form an expert committee to look into allegedly incorrect CLAT 2015 LLM questions and revise the LLM merit list accordingly, on the directions of the Chhattisgarh high court.

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow claimed secrecy for the three CLAT memorandums of understanding (MoU) signed between national law universities (NLU) since 2007.

The Bombay high court judgment has been uploaded on the Bombay high court website, ordering an expert committee with the power to take a decision that could revise the “merit list of candidates if necessary”, making “the whole merit list and all subsequent process, will be subject to outcome of the Expert Panel/Comittee’s decision”.

The Bombay high court ordered the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) convenor RMLNLU Lucknow to institute a new expert committee of eminent persons from the profession to re-examine the objections raised against the CLAT 2015 question paper. Advocate Rishabh Sancheti, appearing for RMLNLU, said that t...

The Rajasthan high court’s Jaipur bench on Tuesday (30 June) ordered the “last student” admitted to NLSIU Bangalore, or “Bangalore Law College” as the high court order put it, to be reserved subject to the result of the writ petition before it, as the Bombay high court CLAT challenge was postponed to 7 July.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 has published a link on its homepage to check the final undergraduate and postgraduate seat allocations, although the page it leads to currently contains an error message stating: The Login to form will be available only between 16-06-2015 01 Hours 00 Minute...

As political protests were organised in Lucknow against the CLAT yesterday and the Rajasthan high court adjourned its hearing in the writ petition against the CLAT to today after the CLAT’s senior counsel did not appear, we take a look at where the litigation stands while the national law schools prepare to close the process in July.

In the latest hearing on the CLAT 2015 case, the High Court of Bombay on 25 June asked the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) convenor to seek clarification from its expert committee on the objections raised by the petitioner regarding 7 questions in the UG exam. The court has refused to grant any interim relief, and the next date for hearing is set for 30 June 2015.

The collegium, the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) symbolise the cliques that are not accountable to anyone other than themselves that run the Indian legal universe, argues NLSIU Bangalore visiting professor Shamnad Basheer on recent news start-up website The Wire...

The Jabalpur high court on Tuesday (23 June) stayed the downgrading of at least 15 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) candidates who were allotted NLIU Bhopal in the first allotment list under the Madhya Pradesh state domicile category, but were later assigned lower-preference colleges in the second list.