The Supreme Court has directed the Telangana State Bar Council to provisionally enrol as advocates candidates whose three-year LL.B. was completed in the regular mode but whose earlier degrees were obtained by open or distance learning, holding that continued denial of enrolment during the pending appeals would cause avoidable prejudice. The provisional enrolment creates no equity and abides by the final outcome on Rule 5 of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008.
The Law Ministry has clarified in the Rajya Sabha that the Bar Council of India does not recognise evening, online, part-time or distance LL.B. courses started after 2000–2001. Only full-time, regular law degrees are valid for enrolment as advocates in India.
