GNLU Gandhinagar students will now neither face a one-year detention on failing exam papers, nor will they have to secure ‘goodness’ marks in addition to 40 per cent passing marks in semester exams.
The Gujarat high court quashed those rules in a PIL filed by nine detained students of the law school. Two marks for “goodness” were a pre-cursor to getting a hall-ticket to appear in the end-semester exams at the university until now.
Justice K S Jhaveri observed in his judgment that the rule can be “a tool in the hands of the Faculty Members, which could be used by them at their own whims and caprice”.
The court also quashed the cap of seven years for a student to graduate from GNLU from the date of his or her admission in the university [Express/Order]
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"The court also quashed the cap of seven years for a student to graduate from GNLU from the date of his or her admission in the university." - This is a warning knell to other lawschools. Most impose a 7 or 8 year limit.
Rules that score high on stupidity:
Attendance rules that are stricter than UGC or BCI rules e.g. requirement of 75% attendance, when BCI says 66.66% is good enough.
Boarding school style rules that aim to make college students monks e.g. lights out by 9 / no-stepping-outside-hostel-building after 9, no internet surfing after 10 etc.
Capping the number of days in a semester when a student can stay out of campus till say 10 or 11 pm to party.
Imposing stupid dress rules like uniform once a week etc (even if there are no moots or no dignitary visiting campus).
And lots of other rules that are arbitrary because they give too much discretion to faculty without laying any guidelines on how such discretion is to be exercised.
To all law teachers:
Most of your students are above 18, so please let them be.
Don’t expect them to have a sad college life like you did – let them party!
While discipline is good, it is not necessary for everyone to have boot camp like discipline.
Don’t judge your students by their taste in clothes (that you find wierd) or smoking/drinking/partying (which you don’t approve) or girlfriend/boyfriend (which you may believe is a sin to indulge in) –college students are bound to have a lot of fun and they will surely squeeze in some study time before the exam.
MOST IMPORTANT: Don’t take it personally and impose stupid rules or abuse your discretionary powers. If you know any law, you should understand that you have a fiduciary duty that requires you to be objective and refrain from behaving like a turd. If you are a grown up, start thinking and behaving like one.
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It seems the VC has completely forgotten the Constitution of India which talks about Freedom of Speech and Expression. Once again he proved that he is not open to any form of positive criticism even it is from a Hon'ble HC in India ! Mr. Patel , please do not forget that India is a democratic country. And now you even dispute the facts and circumstances of a decided case Mr. Patel. Wow :-P
Kudos to the entire team of Legally India for reporting about the Hon'ble Guj HC's Judgment. Your efforts in reporting true incidents are really commendable. Keep up the good work. Regards, GNLU Alumni (2006-2011)
Your Excellency thinks he is the only one learned in the law or what? 2 marks for "goodness" at undergrad level is complete Bu||$hiT. Not to mention that the law does not support such arbitrary rules that lack guidelines for implementation by the executive. Please do not impose your will on law students who have attained majority age.
Thank God you did not express anything on the merits of the judgement - you saved yourself further embarrassment to be honest.
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