The 20-year age limit to appear in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) remains unaffected by the Allahabad high court judgment of May 2014, in which the court had noted that there can be no such restriction since the Bar Council of India (BCI) had already scrapped the maximum age limit on undergraduates.
CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU’s vice chancellor Prof Gurdip Singh commented: “In the core committee meeting we discussed this issue. It was pointed out that [the judgment] was applicable to only those [two candidates who had filed the petition before the Allahabad HC]. There is no high court judgment coming in the way [of the presently fixed eligibility criteria].”
When asked about the effect of the high court’s observation that a BCI notification had declared the age limit criteria unconstitutional, Singh said: “The core committee has the power to independently decide eligibility criteria. The order doesn’t affect the authority of the CLAT core committee as such.”
The Allahabad high court had in May directed CLAT 2014 convenor GNLU Gandhinagar to allow two 21-year-old CLAT aspirants to appear in the entrance test.
This year’s age limit relaxation has been granted to candidates from the persons-with-disabilities (PwD) category, from which candidates up to 22 years of age can now appear, as reported by Legally India. Until CLAT 2015, only candidates from the scheduled categories (SC/ST) were granted this relaxation.
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That apart, upper age limit on enrollment in law college and bar council is essential, to maintain decorum and dignity of the profession. Half of them who enroll these days are above 30-40-50 and well known offenders and politicos.
Is the scenario the same with MBBS/BE or any undergraduate or professional education. Will medical education be opened up for a 70+ person?
Why punish only legal profession by opening it up to all and to whomever wants to join it as and when they wish to join, at their own whims and fancies and giving competition to young lawyers, who enters profession at an young age with big dreams.
This unhealthy competition between young lawyers and old (who enrolls after 30-40) is discouraging young professionals to leave the profession for survival.
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