The Bar Council of India (BCI) has extended the All India Bar Exam registration date, which elapsed last Sunday, by another 15 days to 15 November as the exam is still scheduled to be held on 5 December.
The change was announced in a BCI press release today.
Bar Council of India (BCI) spokesperson Gopal Sankaranarayanan said: “Many candidates and State Bar Councils have requested the Bar Council of India to extend the date for registration (which ended on 31st October). As a result, BCI has decided to extend that date to 15th November.”
He added: “More than 21,000 graduates have registered so far for the Exam. This is out of those who have enrolled after graduating in the last year. There are several who never enrol after obtaining their law degrees, and so, to consider the registered candidates out of the total number of law graduates would not be accurate.”
Last week, according to sources only between around 12,000 and 15,000 students had registered for the exam.
Sankaranarayanan added that prizes would be awarded for the top three positions in the bar exam in the names of M.K.Nambyar, N.A.Palkhivala and Justice H.R.Khanna.
Citing unnamed law ministry sources the Times of India reported today that the law ministry had “categorically told the BCI” to not conduct the test this year, although BCI chairman Gopal Subramanium had said that he was unaware of such communication. [Note: In the same report the Times of India had mis-stated the bar exam date as 15 December, which was a typographical error and the examination date remains unchanged at 5 December.]
New Bombay High Court writ petition admitted
Last week three GLC Mumbai graduates filed a writ petition against the bar exam in the Bombay High Court, as reported by a number of news organisations.
Legally India can now reveal that Bombay High Court Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice DY Chandrachud admitted the case but declined to grant interim relief to the petitioners Kayval Shah, Karan Adhik and Utkarsh Muzumdar.
Through their advocates and KJSV partner Mohan Jayakar, together with Prafulla Shah and Pankaj Sutar they had challenged the BCI’s resolution of 5 June 2010 that introduced the mandatory bar exam for the 2010 graduating batch of law students. The petitioners claimed that the resolution was arbitrary and ultra vires to the Advocates Act, 1961 and in violation of Articles 14 19(1) g of the Constitution of India.
They also submitted that course materials had not yet been made available by the BCI.
KJSV said in a statement: “The Petition as filed in the Hon’ble High Court at Bombay is the only Petition amongst various petition which are filed all over India to be admitted by the Court. It is implied that there is a prima facie violation of right of the Petitioners/students by the Bar Council of India as The Hon’ble High Court, Bombay has admitted the Petition.”
Additional solicitor general DJ Khambatta appeared for the first Respondent, the Union of India. Khambatta submitted that transfer petitions were pending before the Supreme Court on the same issue. Those apex court cases are currently on hold due to Diwali court vacations and delays in serving all the respondents.
The judges said in the order: “If there is any substance in the grievance voiced on behalf of the petitioners regarding non-availability of the course material, the Central Government as well as the Bar Council of India will certainly take necessary remedial steps well in time.”
Download the Bombay High Court order dated 27 October here.
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[Thanks for pointing out the unintentional error, you are correct. -Ed]
Everything is ready now.
Stop weeping and start studing.
Mr. M.K.Nambyar was an upright person in the field of Constitutional law particularly in respect of Fundamental Right. And here the students of 2009-10 batch are fighting against the BCI resolution that is arbitrary and ultra vires to the Advocates Act, 1961 and in violation of Articles 14 19(1) g of the Constitution of India. Even the Apex body cannot validate BCI’s ultra vires resolution as nobody is above the law.
Mr. Phalkhiwala (His favourite quotation was from Joseph Story, who said: "The Constitution has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, the people."). Here BCI’s action proves the latter.
Mr. Khanna's dissenting opinion, claiming that the Constitution did not permit right to life and liberty to be subject to executive decree, is widely regarded as a landmark in Indian democracy. So if the Apex body upholds the BCI’s resolution, the student’s of 2009-10 batch shall openly dissent such opinions.
I applied for study materail in September 2010 and am still awaiting for the same. Am wondering when would the November applicants receive their material and how would they be justified in the above mentioned awards?
But is the Union Government sleeping. It is being alleged that the BCI chairman is handpicked choise of Union Ministry. Why is union government mum on the subject? Why is it not interferring?
It means Union Government is also part of this controversy which is affecting thousands of law graduates and lakhs of their family members. I can bet that if same is the attitude of Union Ministry, it is going to suffer in coming elections.
These students are trying to block the noble effort from its inception.
"There is no shortcut to success"~They will realise soon.
Leave the country or else...
BCI is not receiving phone calls.
What should we do now ?
V SHOULD STOP MAKING COMMENTS HERE AND GET TOGETHER AND SPEAK AGAINST THIS EXAM....
FUC**D up boy ( who still is studying)
why do u keep editing my post, n still i am waiting for your reply..why no comment on t bar exam,
Gopu uncel n sachin bhaiya...has thy gt anythng 2 do with it...
well u ediited my big portion n main crux f t story...if no marks r to be revealed then hw come prizes...any comment on this Mr. Kian...
Again FUC*ED Up Boy ( Now nt studyng any more) hell wit t exams n ppl concerned with it
:-x
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