HC refuses to entertain plea to form panel to check feasibility of 4-year law course instead of 5-yrDelhi High Court rejects plea for a legal education commission to consider a four-year law course, stating it's beyond their role. Petition...
02 May, 2024, 04.50 PM IST
Earmarked 500 law colleges which are sub-standard, surprise inspections to be done: BCI to Supreme CourtIn an affidavit filed in a matter related to reforms in legal education and placements of young lawyers, the BCI said that it is constituti...
15 Apr, 2022, 07.56 PM IST
Bar demands lifting ban on lawyers' strike, but CJI Ranjan Gogoi unimpressedChief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Saturday disagreed with a suggestion by the apex bar body to lift a 16-year-old ban on strikes by la...
06 Oct, 2018, 05.44 PM IST
HC grants interim stay on Bar Council of India's circular on age limit for law aspirantsFollowing this, the Maharashtra government this year asked all law colleges to keep in mind the age limit following which the petitions wer...
06 Jan, 2017, 05.16 PM IST
Bar Council sets 30 years as upper age to get a law seatThe council has, however, failed to consider earlier orders of the Bombay and Punjab & Haryana HC that had struck down the age limit provis...
23 Sep, 2016, 02.38 PM IST
Central Information Commission pulls up BCI for not following mandatory RTI clauseThe case relates to a woman named K R Chitra who sought to know information relating to inspection of all law colleges and institutions by ...
17 Apr, 2016, 01.22 PM IST
City law students slam Bar Council's dress code proposalA circular from the BCI asking law colleges in the country to devise their own dress codes “befitting the profession“ has sparked off a deb...
13 Apr, 2016, 11.25 AM IST
Bar Council asks DU to shutdown evening law collegesTaking into account that proper quality of legal education cannot be ensured if classes are run during evening hours, the Council has decid...
10 Jan, 2016, 03.30 PM IST
BCI corruption case: Delhi court orders framing of charges against former officials, othersThe court, however, said no charge of forgery for purpose of cheating and using forged documents as genuine is made out against the accused.
05 Nov, 2015, 03.01 PM IST
30 per cent of lawyers in India are fake, Bar Council chief saysThe two-time BCI chairman expressed concern that thousands of fake law certificates are being issued and thousands of lawyers.
26 Jul, 2015, 10.34 AM IST
Row over degree: HC disallows withdrawal of plea against Jitender Singh TomarThe Bar Council of India and the Bar Council of Delhi, who were roped in as respondents in the plea, appeared in court on the notice issued...
13 Mar, 2015, 01.40 PM IST
Bar Council derecognizes Delhi University's law courseThis means students admitted in these centres from 2011-12 onwards won't be eligible to be enrolled as advocates and can't practice.
26 Sep, 2014, 12.55 PM IST
- MCI planning entrance to enhance credibility quotient
Brainchild of Medical Council of India (MCI), it will do away with doubts over the competence of a doctor with an MBBS degree from not so g...
02 Mar, 2011, 04.30 AM IST
- BCI bribery case: CBI judge held hostage by lawyers
Upset over denial of bail to Rana, the lawyers led by some senior advocates kept the judge confined to his room and raised slogans besides ...
26 Dec, 2010, 07.59 PM IST
- CBI arrests two Supreme Court advocates on charges of bribery
CBI has arrested two senior advocates of the Supreme Court for allegedly accepting bribe for granting affiliation to a Ghaziabad-based Law ...
21 Dec, 2010, 06.55 PM IST
- Entrance test for law graduates in December, BCI tells SC
The Supreme Court on Friday recorded an undertaking by the Bar Council of India (BCI) that it proposed to conduct its mandatory entrance te...
14 May, 2010, 11.22 PM IST
- SC notice to Centre, BCI on allowing IIT to start LL.B course
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre and the Bar Council of India (BCI) on a petition challenging grant of sanction to ...
15 May, 2009, 07.39 PM IST