Articles tagged with: GNLU Gandhinagar

GNLU admin leaps in to help students out of detention limbo after retrospective rule change

GNLU Gandhinagar has cleared the exam applications of two detained students yesterday, minutes after Legally India reported that the students were in detention limbo due to administrative inaction for weeks.

GNLU students in detention limbo after allegedly retrospective rule change

At GNLU Gandhinagar, two students stand to lose a year due to alleged administrative inaction following a retroactive rule change. The students have been detained in the third year of BALLB for the second consecutive year in August 2016, despite the existence of a university regulation enabling them to potentially be promoted this year.£££para£££

GNLU organises blood donation camp, hopes to top last year's 170-donor record

The GNLU Gandhinagar Legal Services Committee (LSC) is holding its annual blood donation camp on 15 July on campus, after over 235 people turned up last year with 170 eventually successfully donating blood, according to a blog by the convenors.

Gujarat HC finds another 'strong' case against GNLU over staffers' petition

GNLU meets in HC again
GNLU meets in HC again
GNLU Gandhinagar is again in the Gujarat high court, this time as three administrative staff members have alleged that GNLU director Bimal Patel made illegal appointments at the law school.

Snort: Outlook releases law school rankings without NUJS, NLIU, NLU-J, as GNLU comes 3rd

Following the publication of India Today’s theoretically irrelevant law school rankings last month, Outlook India’s 2016 top 20 law school rankings have been released but do not included NUJS Kolkata, NLIU Bhopal or NLU Jodhpur.

GNLU’s Bimal Patel emails staff with inspiring tale of pilgrimage against ‘defamatory news’ in oligarchy case

GNLU Gandhinagar director Bimal Patel emailed all faculty members today with a story of a relative walking 4km, vowing to install a statue of Lord Ganesha in his house, in order to support Patel against “the defamatory news about GNLU in Jaymin Brahmbhatt case”.

HC disposes GNLU appeal v 'oligarchy' order, orders independent inquiry into cheating allegation

GNLU Gandhinagar will now complete its disciplinary proceedings against third year LLB student Jaymin Brahmbatt through an external inquiry committee which will decide whether Brahmbatt is guilty of cheating on a university exam. Brahmbatt will be allowed to proceed to the fourth year of LLB pending the enquiry.

GNLU tries scheme to poach other NLUs' students. CLAT bans it.

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GNLU
GNLU Gandhinagar rolled out seats in its second year LLB class, for students of other NLUs, on 24 May but by 7 June, after interested students had already applied for admission the law school rolled back the offer due to objection from the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) committee.

GNLU director Bimal Patel appointed to 21st Law Commission [while still not absolved of HC's adverse remarks]

GNLU Gandhinagar director Bimal Patel is now a member of the Law Commission of India, reported Live Law.

GNLU tells HC creative expansion of Bimal Patel's powers won't apply here; Judgment out tomorrow

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GNLU Gandhinagar will not immediately use the new regulations it had enacted to give its director supreme disciplinary powers that are even greater than its executive council (EC).

GNLU director Bimal Patel grabs power from exec council to invent new punishments, ahead of Guj HC hearing [UPDATE-1: Judgment Friday]

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GNLU Gandhinagar transferred the power to punish students allegedly found guilty of prohibited activities and conduct during exams from its executive council to its director.

The Choose Your Law School Sessions: Let’s talk about vice chancellors, baby (the good, the bad and especially the ugly)

Just imagine if you this little guy was your law school VC...
Just imagine if you this little guy was your law school VC...

The law school you choose should not just get you the job of your dreams but it also better give you an exceptionally nurturing educational atmosphere during your undergraduate years, considering the budget you are going to be allocating to it.

Guj HC dismisses GNLU's appeal, for now, against order calling it an anti-human rights oligarchy; no urgency during court-vacation

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The Gujarat high court today dismissed GNLU’s letters patent appeal against the high court’s order that had called GNLU an “oligarchy” which “casually” denies its students basic human rights.

Bimal Patel has turned GNLU Gandhingar into a ‘human-rights-violating oligarchy’, agrees HC, overturning ‘malafide, unreasonable, illegal’ frisking decision

Gandhinagar student has won against the university administration in the Gujarat high court over what the high court termed its “wholly baseless, arbitrary, malafide, unreasonable, illegal” decision to physically frisk and persecute a student after an exam, after wrongly suspecting the student was “hiding something”, and then cancelling that student’s exam result.

Day Zeros: Demand from Amarchands divided offsets drop in 2017 recruitments from others [via Mint]

Graphic via Mint
Graphic via Mint
Both sides of the now divided Amarchand Mangaldas family empire have considerably increased their recruitments for 2017 from top law schools, many top firms have filled up their quota from recruits from top law schools already.

Nat'l law school 'celebrates 67th Republic Day with great zeal and fervour', 'singing patriotic songs'

GNLU Gandhinagar has sent out a press release that on the occasion of yesterday’s Republic Day (26 January), it celebrated “with great zeal and fervour” and “unfurled the national flag and addressed the GNLU fraternity and students who gathered to celebrate”.

GNLU encourages litigation as career through Rs 90,000 scholarship for 5

GNLU Gandhinagar will reward five of its most recent alumni each year with Rs 7500 each, monthly, as scholarship to practice in courts as a litigation lawyer. The GNLU Litigation Assistance and Support Scholarship (GLASS), launched by the law school this year, aims to support the litigation career o...

GNLU hikes LLB fees to 2+ lakh, as younger NLUs catch up, RMLNLU remains cheapest [via Mint]

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The cost of a five-year national law university (NLU) course has risen to record levels this year, particularly at the newer NLUs, where the total fees to educate a lawyer come to as much as Rs.2.47 lakh per year, dwarfing the fees charged by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

GNLU bags 24 top tier BigLaw jobs after its Day Zero yesterday, as (Cyril) Amarchand hires 12 to overtake Khaitan as biggest Day Zero hirer

GNLU Gandhinagar has already placed a total of 24 students on its Day Zero held yesterday, out of a batch of 155, of whom 115 took part in the recruitment process.

GNLU: The only NLU to hide full placement picture, shows off 19 ‘selected’ job offers for ~150 students

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Sunlight at GNLU
GNLU Gandhinagar has again declined to disclose complete placement statistics for their graduating batch this year, following the policy it started last year .