The Supreme Court has said it will examine whether the Bar Council of India, as the statutory regulator of the legal profession, has the power to control and regulate law colleges and universities. Hearing pleas concerning the BCI-PEARL FIRST Trust and law institutions it has set up, the Court questioned how the BCI could be an expert body on legal education, observing that a regulator cannot itself run the institutions it is meant to regulate.
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.
BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra apologised to law students over the NALSAR enrolment-bar row, saying an expression of regret “is not a matter of prestige or ego,” amid backlash from NALSAR and NLSIU. New Delhi: Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has apologised to law students over the controversy arising from his […]
The BCI withdrew, within hours, its order barring enrolment of NALSAR’s 2026 batch over a campaign opposing CJI Surya Kant at convocation, saying most students were innocent. New Delhi: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has withdrawn — within hours of issuing it — an order that had directed State Bar Councils not to enrol […]
Around 450 NALSAR students wrote to the administration opposing CJI Surya Kant as convocation chief guest, citing his remarks on the student protests and police action. Hyderabad: A section of the graduating students at the NALSAR University of Law has written to the university administration opposing any proposal to invite Chief Justice of India Surya […]
