Bar Council of India: All India Bar Examination for Law Students
The Bar Council of India plans to conduct the first-ever all-India bar examination on December 05, 2010, which will qualify law students for practicing in the country. This mandatory exam will test law students’ basic knowledge of law, their analytical capability and aptitude for practicing the legal profession in the modern, changing world.
The exam will be conducted with help from a legal consultancy, Rainmaker, twice or thrice a year in nine different languages. Besides, Rainmaker has also revamped the Council’s website www.barcouncilofindia.org. It will also assist the council in creating an inventory of Indian lawyers and in conducting a common law admission test for law colleges across the country.
Bar Council of India: All-India Bar Examination to Enhance Quality of Legal Education
All students graduating from law schools starting the academic year 2009-2010 are required to appear for the exam. The exam is a step towards enhancing the quality of legal profession in India and to bring about the much-required legal reforms. It also seeks to examine the quality of education imparted at various law institutes across the country, especially the rural ones.
Also, the exam provides a platform for rural law students to work alongside the advocates who have graduated from national law schools, thus removing inconsistency in attitudes. The fee for first-time appearance in the exam is Rs.1300 (including preparatory materials), while repeated attempts require paying Rs. 700 as fee.
Bar Council of India: Problems Faced by Legal Practitioners Include Inadequate Skills and Utilization of Technology
According to the Bar Council of India, the legal profession suffers the following problems:
- Inadequate skills and infrastructure to meet modern day demands.
- Lack of assessment techniques for ensuring sustained improvement and growth of legal profession.
- Lack of motivation to meet the highest aspirations of the legal profession, and lack of awareness about the levels of excellence in the profession, its tradition and heritage.
- Inability to provide the basic human rights to the marginalized and vulnerable sections of the society.
- Inadequate utilization of technology and disconnect with the modern economy.
The council’s noble intentions notwithstanding, the bar exam has been criticized for its alleged nepotism and profit-making motive. Also, under fire, is the open book method of the exam and the basic level knowledge expectations; since many argue that these will not contribute to real enhancement in the quality of legal profession.
very good step.
Every laudable decisions has an ulterior motive of a group
Bar councils decison to hold all india exam for law graduates for enrolling them to practise has an ulterior motive of protecting the existing lawyers who actual need reform. The hasste with which the decision is taken even without amending the Act,1961, proves that the BCI is driven by ultimate mltives of profiting. 60000 students to be enrolled and all will have to pay Rs.1300/- oh what a geat money, and another IPL scam.
BCi earlier attempt to fix age limit and also prescribing training befoe enrollement av been struck down y the courts. Now the BCI wants to make an back door entry under the guise of reform. The target should be existing lawyers and not new aspiing law graduates
A.R.Sathyan
Bar council should concentrate more on other issues destroing their image such as nepotism, groupism in elsection, power hungry members, ego adn all negative attitude.
its right way and good way
it is right step towards the selection of quality lawyers,but according to me old lawyers should also appear for this exam. it will help law body to eliminate such lawyers who does not have common basic knowledge about the law & still they are sementing there place on basis of law degree,
What is the problem to face another Exam?
yes there is no problem to face another exam but it should apply to all, not only for this this batch it should also check the creditbility of old lawyers ,by whom this situation has arised..
as of now I think the decision to hold the AIBE is the one god enough since it will help the law students to graduate as rather more confident and competent legal professionals.
postponding for 1 year is not the solution for that,,,it is applied for checking the creditability of lawyers,,it should make compulsary for all.
very good step to develope the skill
I do not feel such exams will in any way help to enhance the quality of advocates in India. The idea may be noble, but the exam decision itself is germinated in illegitimate fertilizer. The Bar Council of India is a statutory body, created and born out of an Act of the Parliament of India.
Such an institution can not go beyond its statutory authority or procedure of law as laid down in the statute already to propose such mandatory exams for law students.
What is needed today is experience in law field for freshers, with probably top Senior Counsels and Legal Aid Cells of various High Courts and other Courts for a period of 1 year mandatorily. All designated senior counsels mus be roped in mandatorily to have atleast 5 interns for atleast 3 years prior to them being given such a coveted designation in legal arena. Such modifications in rules are needed and positive approach is needed, not merely paper exams whcih have no meaning at all...How can a fresh law graduate have knowledge or skills of law without real field experience.
There is need for real concrete effort, not merely rain like effort which will get washed away like a puddle of water after rains are gone! I really wish students knock at the doors of Hon'ble Courts for seeking reliefs and stay on such farcical exams which are also ultra vires the law.
- Advocate Mahesh Vaswani, Mumbai.
Mobile : 9821610888
An Exam to check the “legal knowledge” of a new lawyer. Sounds good. Then what is the value of the institute or university from which the candidate qualified. What is the value of those exams? Bar Council is not satisfied with that? Or not agreeing that?
This Exam is expected to correct following
Inadequate utilization of technology and disconnect with the modern economy.
Inadequate skills and infrastructure to meet modern day demands.
How?
I feel for that a mechanism like “License Renewal” is required periodically. So Lawyers will be forced to get updated.
Of course this is good step, bringing a common test for professional job. So soon we can see “Lawyer Finishing Schools”, Exam training centers. All The Best, New Lawyers
The basic question here is whether such an exam, as envisaged, will improve the present sorry state of affairs in our judicial system. Then, who is responsible for low quality law education, given the vast powers the Bar Council has enjoyed over the last several years ? This sudden axe will again cut off the best and latest enabled young lawyers from the system to provide enough space for the old and ugly lot now ruling the roost, as in the case of our party politics. I hate the Bar move to impose a stupid screening exam if it does not include every single advocate now on show all over this country.
I feel its important and also a welcome step..but the matter is that isn't it unfair to impose the exam on the law graduates passing this yr only? Should not the lawyers who enrolled before 2010 also go through this screening? These questions need to be answered.
Moreover, have the law graduates passing in 2009-10 got anything more in their curriculum or syllabus which their predecessors did not get? Is there any change in the system of court practice of lawyers who r to join the bar in 2010? If so, do they need any kind of special knowledge or expertise for the same?
Most important thing is that will those lawyers passing the exam get any kind of remuneration or pension benefit etc. from the Govt.? If Govt. is treating the lawyers of 2010 separately from their predecessors then they must provide the former some benefits, isn't it?
If after passing the exam still the 2010 lawyers are treated at per with earlier lawyers then the exam is nothing but a waste of time...
A.P/2843/2010 Not sending study material and examination hall ticket for me even to day
BCI study material not sending even day and hall ticket also
my contact no. 9490990892
bci had failed to send preparatory materials to jammu and kashmir law graduates who had applied for AIBEE ... and did not got any confirmation from BCI regarding to forms ..
This is a good step . But the BCI must take steps also for provide traing to the young lawyers who passed the exam . And also the exam must be fair in each cintre .
I HAVE COMPLETEED MY LLB IN 2010, I HAVE NOT GOT APPEARED IN DEC. 2010 LLB EXAM. WHICH EXAM I CAN OR WHAT TIME.
THANX
TANZEEM
AIBE exam.not good one becouse you want take before held our final LL.B exam or within 1manth for your decision we loss one year which is not make relif any way
My opinion is that, this type of examinations would not develop the law skills of a candidate, but restrict him from practicing as an advocate. So the BCI may rule the law institutions to conduct the LLB examination very strictly like CA exams, MBBS exams etc. But the material is good and it would very useful for the advocates.
still we dont have hallticket of AIBE
why
Is there a negative marking system in this exam?
I think that the said exam are very well thought but it is been executed in wrong area, rather this exam should be held just after the degree exam of LLb and after passing this exam only one should get his degree or eligibility for getting enrolled as a advocate in India. Then only Bar Council of India can achieve their goal. This will also give us the level of study given by law school and collages to the new comers, and not only that if some institutes fails to give regular good results then Bar Council of India should take steps to close those institutes for non performance. Then we can expect to get best lawyers and this would also give healthy and strong competition to level of study of CA , MBA, CS, ETC.
Dear All,
The most neglected sector in our country is legal profession. There is no guarantee of guaranteed monthly income to all Advocates at Subordinate Court level.
Trial Court Advocates have to follow outdated Advocate Fee Rules, whereas some of the Advocates are chanrging thousands or lakhs of rupees. The base for any case is Subordinate Courts.
The present legal education is revolving around Act wise training instead it has to be changed as ...
In case of Civil Law .. how to practice at Junior Judge Court, Senior Civil Judge Court, District Court,
in case of Criminal Law .. Magistrate Court, Asst. Sessions Court, Sessions Court,
How to practice before Tribunals both State and Central Govt.
How to practice Arbitration cases, Quasi Judicial Cases, Lok Adalat cases,
Next how to practice before High Court and Supreme Court?
Every Advocate should have thorough knowledge of the above in a systematic way. Should have perfect clarity of thought regarding the filing procedures.
Bar Council of India is also silent, there is no single system for fixing of Advocate Fee Rules. Why Advocates have to charge less for cases of rich people? In my opinion Advocate Fee Rules should be an optional. So that once the Advocate has economic security, then he will definitely discharge his social responsibility to take up cases of poor people at free of cost also.
Young Advocates or aspirants those who want to enter into legal profession should think thousand times regarding the monthly income.
Bar Council of India should think of appointing a committee to study the problems faced by our legal fraternity to keep alive the right to live with human dignity a fundamental right guaranteed by Constitution of India. It is a hoax, if an Advocate deprive of his right to live, how he/she can keep alive the same of others?
with regards,
E.S. Jagadeeshwar,
Advocate,
Convener, BJP City Legal Cell, Nellore
Dear All,
The most neglected sector in our country is legal profession. There is no guarantee of guaranteed monthly income to all Advocates at Subordinate Court level.
Trial Court Advocates have to follow outdated Advocate Fee Rules, whereas some of the Advocates are chanrging thousands or lakhs of rupees. The base for any case is Subordinate Courts.
The present legal education is revolving around Act wise training instead it has to be changed as ...
In case of Civil Law .. how to practice at Junior Judge Court, Senior Civil Judge Court, District Court,
in case of Criminal Law .. Magistrate Court, Asst. Sessions Court, Sessions Court,
How to practice before Tribunals both State and Central Govt.
How to practice Arbitration cases, Quasi Judicial Cases, Lok Adalat cases,
Next how to practice before High Court and Supreme Court?
Every Advocate should have thorough knowledge of the above in a systematic way. Should have perfect clarity of thought regarding the filing procedures.
Bar Council of India is also silent, there is no single system for fixing of Advocate Fee Rules. Why Advocates have to charge less for cases of rich people? In my opinion Advocate Fee Rules should be an optional. So that once the Advocate has economic security, then he will definitely discharge his social responsibility to take up cases of poor people at free of cost also.
Young Advocates or aspirants those who want to enter into legal profession should think thousand times regarding the monthly income.
Bar Council of India should think of appointing a committee to study the problems faced by our legal fraternity to keep alive the right to live with human dignity a fundamental right guaranteed by Constitution of India. It is a hoax, if an Advocate deprive of his right to live, how he/she can keep alive the same of others?
with regards,
E.S. Jagadeeshwar,
Advocate,
Convener, BJP City Legal Cell, Nellore
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