I think there is room to have both differentiated by sex and inclusive spaces. Obviously, there must be boundaries around single sex spaces which must be respected, but that does not mean there cannot be gender inclusive spaces as well (and that does not mean relabelling accessible toilets as accessible + gender inclusive, it means doing something genuinely to have provision that addresses both the needs of those who require accessible toilet provision and for those for whom gender inclusive spaces are needed). This very binary argument does not capture the world's realities anymore.

Thank you for this. I am a straight, heterosexual, cisgender male, blind person, so not impacted personally by the issues raised. Reading these comments and finding out what kinds of people comment on this site had made me feel like never visiting it again. Your comment has made me reconsider.

Moderator, how exactly does this conform with your moderation guidelines? How is this acceptable material to publish? Isn't the acceptable standard that an exercise of rights that harms someone else an unacceptable striking of the balance? Of course with free speech, it is high, for we must accept shocking, disturbing, even offensive comments. But exposing people impacted by these issues to comments like this could potentially have a chilling effect on them - have you considered that?

To the one who wrote this disgusting crap: do we have an act like the (now-repealed) UK Local Government Act 1988 which made illegal the "promotion" of homosexuality in certain circumstances? What exactly is your problem in life? If nothing wrong has been done, why do you have a problem? If you can't be civil, why can't you just keep quiet? You are just taking advantage of the anonymity this website affords you to kick down? Do you know that had this been a non-anonymous comment, you could have been accused of engaging in conduct that lowers the confidence of the public in the legal profession? Or are you so drunk on power that you don't care? Haven't you realised that homosexuality has been decriminalised in India?

You don't have to look at the unpublished comments. Now look even at the published ones. Totally disgusted. If someone impacted by these issues were to join a profession that would drive them to experiencing suicidal thoughts, the legal profession in India is the one. That is what the law schools should put on their advertisement brochures. At least they'd be honest.

(2) the popular kids, the so called progressive students, the moot and OC gang, everyone just lives in their bubble, using slurs and what not. I hope you realise what you did to me, you guys knew how my family is on the verge of disowning me still you treated me like shit. I hope nalsar gets better, all we need is radical love and empathy genuinely. And karma will get back to you, i curse you ▮▮▮ gang.

I wrote this, i am in nalsar. I am pretty sure people will realise who i am but idc. My family is pulling a lot of shit with me. I can’t survive with my parents and there is a lot of stuff that goes in nalsar which is very much normalised but it makes other people’s lives hell.

An alumni here, the best I can tell you is, hang in there, throw yourself in academics, moots and internships. Focus on building your CV, you can talk to some friendly professors if it gets too much.

But at the end of the day, no one is your friend there. And that is fine. That is all you have to understand and digest. Remind yourself of the reasons you are there in the first place and that is the reality not just of law schools, but if nay institution where everyone gets in after hyper competition. This notion that people are better in such institutions is a myth. Most of these places are pressure chambers, focus on getting the best out of it and building mental resilience. Being alone is not a bad thing, it can help you to get your priorities sorted.

Choose you practice area first; Connect with your seniors; Go to your nearest district court and ask the court clerks the same question-and they will help you more than you can think of; Start with trial court-since the skills you learn there are summarily transferable till the apex benches; Know that it willtruly be hectic-no money, enormous work, no self-respect, sitting at those crumbly benches of trial courtsall day and then follow the senior to his/her chamber till midnight; Follow only if you have passion for the same.

Your thought process makes no sense to me.

Firstly, you say you'd wish to do the LLB for a job at a Magic Circle or SC firm, as a solicitor, when the UK has no requirement of having an undergraduate degree in law to be eligible for those and just require the SQE. Why do you believe that having an LLB from India and adding another LLB from a UK university would make you more attractive when these firms look for things more than just bare legal knowledge?

Secondly, if you wish to experience excellent pedagogy, an LLM/BCL/Other specialized masters degree like the Oxford Masters in Law & Finance should appeal to you. You'd be building upon the foundations you already have of the law, instead of re-learning it. A masters degree would mean meaningful progression for you, as well as you getting to experience the academic prowess of apparently superior universities in a more meaningful way than you would with a second LLB.

Better would be to see a psychiatrist!!!

When you already are going to pass BALLB, why on earth would you want to pursue another undergrad degree?

If you really were confident enough to get to UK univ., then you shoul have already tried for BCL, or other LLMs...what narcissistic rubbish was your post, buddy?

p.s. sorry for the lang., though!

My dear chap. You've found the best possible recipe (IMV at least) (the one where rejection from something like an MC application is less likely than with your current background) for an Indian lawyer wanting to work in the UK these days. Yes. Absolutely worth doing an LLB from a good uni (I've done it myself, though I went directly after school, without having done any previous degrees from India). Certainly better than doing an LLM - which is a path that will not work for 99 cases out of 100 (and your background indicates that you are among those 99). If your mind has already gone to LLB instead of the default "I-can-do-LLM-then-get-MC/Biglaw-job" mindset that most kids with an Indian law degree (NLU or non-NLU) who want to work abroad have, then you already have one of the key qualities needed to succeed: a gritty sense of reality. That already sets you apart from the many Indian law graduates going to the UK for an LLM with the ultimate aim of working in a UK law firm. Many of these guys are good students, but their grasp on reality is so poor that for all practical purposes, they are fantacists. You are not, which makes you, in the real world, by default smarter than most of them. Good job on that, keep it up.

As for scholarships, those are few and far between and not in very high amounts, and each uni has its individual processes for those, look them up and make relevant enquiries. Therefore, my answer would require a bit of a caveat: "absolutely worth it if you can get scholarships or have the financial amounts needed to make such a huge commitment or a mixture of both". At the uni I attended, most of the scholarships were set aside for UK students from the bottom 15 to 20% income brackets of UK households. One way that might help with scholarships is doing very well on the LNAT.

Considering you've already studied law and got good internships on your CV, you might just find that you're having an easier time of it than your mates. But be warned, the fight for first year schemes, vac schemes and TCs is going to be a huge one and very psychologically draining. Be braced for many lonely, rainy days in your student housing where your blood pressure is at an all time high, awaiting that sweet email with a "yes" after you've made loads of applications, and then suddenly you've been brought to earth with a jolt because of law firm application rejections coming in. Even for the UK LLB students with the best profiles (be they home or international), for every vac scheme offer there are three (or more) rejections. That may sound scary but abstract at this stage, but when you've done all the graft of getting through, working hard and doing well at your law studies at your UK uni, having made the financial commitments etc etc and spent all those hours drafting, re-drafting and re-re-redrafting your applications over and over again, having done mock interview practice with your mates and your uni's careers office, it feels pretty shitty to get those rejections, especially if you don't end up making all that many friends and your family is living 5000 miles away. The trouble is, you'll have to just grit your teeth and summon up the determination to come back and fight another day (application cycle) and potentially even be ready to settle for having to get on a graduate visa (often wrongly called a "PSW visa" by students and universities alike) using which you can get something like paralegal experience after your LLB before getting a TC; even with this, if you come after 1 January 2027 (likely in your case), you will get only 18 months on your graduate visa instead of the two years that my lot had when we came a few years ago. Some of this may apply a little less to you, especially given your background, than both subsets of your mates: those (British and international) who've just come out of school/whose first degree is law, and those (British and international) who've taken other degrees at university, but in non-law subjects.

In any case, make up your mind soon whether you want to do this or not. Tuition fees for international students for a UK education are gonna shoot up like you've never seen before in the coming years. The government's being a bitch regarding immigration. They may be Labour, but they are like Boris Johnson of the Conservatives in that they are fantacists. They want to, as Boris did, have their cake and eat it. That is, they want to prevent British students from paying higher tuition, therefore keeping fundamentally the model where the system would have problems if the foreign money was cut off at source. And yet they want to reduce immigration, and one way they want to do that is by trying to reduce international student numbers. The way they have found to solve this logical contradiction is by imposing a tax on the universities based on the number of international students they take, which kicks in after, I think, the first 100 international students a uni recruits. That amount was set at the last budget at £925 per student. Remember your Economics 101, done either at school or at university: a uni doesn't absorb that tax. It passes it on. To whom? Students. Take that into account before getting into this. The tax kicks in after August 2028.

Finally, regarding your question of LOR, there are plenty of students from India on LinkedIn who've done previous uni degrees in India before UK LLB. Ask them, because I am honestly not sure in your case where would be the best for you to get those from. For those like me, it was certainly school.

PS: Not sure if this applies anymore, but before I went to the UK, there was a lot of talk about how Indian students who went with Indian board qualifications like CBSE were looked down on by admissions tutors at many of the elite names you mentioned (including both Oxford and LSE). I think this is less of a problem now, but still worth keeping in mind, I would think...

GPT gives this answer. Can someone factcheck this

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If you’re a self-employed lawyer (professional income) earning ₹17 lakh/year, your tax depends heavily on how smartly you use deductions and schemes. Let’s walk through a realistic “maximum tax saving” scenario for FY 2025–26 (AY 2026–27).

🧾 Step 1: Use Presumptive Taxation (Best Option for Lawyers)

As a lawyer, you can use Section 44ADA:

Declare 50% of income as profit

Remaining 50% treated as expenses (no proof needed)

👉 So:

Gross income = ₹17,00,000

Taxable profit = ₹8,50,000

💸 Step 2: Apply Maximum Deductions

Now reduce ₹8.5L further:

Common + High-impact deductions:

80C (PPF, ELSS, LIC, etc.) → ₹1,50,000

80D (Health insurance) → ₹25,000

NPS (80CCD(1B)) → ₹50,000

Standard business expenses (already covered in 44ADA) → no need separately

👉 New taxable income: ₹8,50,000 – ₹2,25,000 = ₹6,25,000

🧮 Step 3: Tax Calculation (Old Regime – best for deductions)

Slab:

0–2.5L → 0

2.5–5L → 5% = ₹12,500

5–6.25L → 20% = ₹25,000

👉 Total tax = ₹37,500

🎯 Step 4: Apply Rebate (Section 87A)

Rebate applies if income ≤ ₹5 lakh → ❌ NOT applicable here

➕ Step 5: Add Cess

4% cess = ₹1,500

👉 Final Tax ≈ ₹39,000

🟢 Final Answer (Optimized Scenario)

👉 You pay ~₹39,000 tax on ₹17 lakh income

IPU grad and tier 2/3 NLU PG, unable to land a job. I was preparing for competitive examination and now want to start in Disputes. There is some gap in CV. I have mailed almost everyone partner in NCR, no reply. Also, have contacted the Legal Recruitment Agents but they require exp. anyone please help.

Write to the VCs directly.Also, did you really browse through your options at different NLUs enough, before you got into PU for PhD?There are better private universities as well where you could jave recieved a stipend as well as TAs!You should have worked a lot more towards your research proposal.

I have been steadily investing in US stocks for the past 3 years. My portfolio stands at 91 per cent profit in Indian Rupees conversion and 79 per cent in investment calculation. Haven't withdrawn anything as of now. I maintain 10 to 15 per cent of my total investments in US portfolio. I have been steadily investing in US stocks for the past 3 years. My portfolio stands at 91 per cent profit in Indian Rupees conversion and 79 per cent in investment calculation. Haven't withdrawn anything as of now. I maintain 10 to 15 per cent of my total investments in US portfolio.

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As lawyers we work on multiple documents at a time. Work flow wise, windows is better, you can shuffle between all the stuff open, super conveniently. On MacOS, the work flow is not that great for multitasking, don't get me wrong, apple's hardware is anyday better than your hp dell etc, no lags etc in mac, but the UI makes multitasking super painfull.

Outlook is also better on windows than MacOS, more features, especially certain super important features like justified alignment - are not available on MacOS, imagine this, as a lawyer sending emails which are not even aligned properly. Even A0's don't make that mistake. This one point alone is reason enough for rejecting Mac tbh.

That being said, yes the fantastic build quality, long battery life, superb display, near zero lags or glitches - I do see the allure, I myself love mac, just that for my lawyer work stuff it's not a good fit. Windows is better suited to what we do.

Hi, I will starting my journey as a disputes lawyer soon. I have an offer from a decent chambers in Delhi and a decent firm in Mumbai. I am planning to opt for the Delhi Chambers because my training period will be ending soon and I will have a job in hand by June-July (As opposed to the Mumbai firm whos training period starts from june if i take it up). The thing is, as a woman, I have always felt very comfortable in Mumbai and I love the people. And i just want to know if I ever wish to comeback to bombay and start practicing in a firm, will my work exp in delhi be an obstacle (since litigation differs in both the cities)

Its not litigation its charity. No senior is here to back you or help you grow in your practice. only 10% litigators make it big all others are empty pockets. I have seen many do business side by side some even do part time teaching for revenue and one incident i remember for legal aid defence counsel junior position their were so many people with more than 10 years practice when criteria was for 0-3 years minimum that too for salary of mere 45k that too after 10 years. many quit and join corporates after years. most docs in lower courts are in marathi you need to understand them cannot 100% rely on translator.

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I’m a student at a ▮▮▮ based law college. During a drinking binge, my group met and got drunk with a bunch of seniors at the usual college drinking spot. I remember only flashes of the night after that and woke up in my room with the clothes on the next day, but very sore (after inter course type) and with random bruises on my body.

My roommate said we both came in after drinking, but I feel very weird about not remembering what happened and my friends were also sloshed and don’t remember much.

The seniors we drank with are known trouble makers, but have been good to our group, so I don’t want to accuse them without any proof. I’m scared that something happened to me that night which I can’t remember given my body’s condition. What do I do?

Hi, I’m exploring opportunities and was wondering if anyone has recent insights on HSA Advocates-Delhi office, specifically what they’re currently paying associates with around 2–3 years PQE and how the overall work culture is . Would really appreciate any first hand or recent inputs!

From the outside, it’s quite evident that the team is constantly drained. It doesn’t seem to stem from the work alone, but largely from the way leadership approaches things, which makes an already demanding setup feel unsustainable. Working in a different team, we can’t help but notice how perpetually exhausted they seem. It feels less like a workload issue and more like the environment created by those at the top, which just makes things worse

C&M lost out on a great partner. Kaushalya does great corporate work, her team is really sharp. Personally been across the table with one of her associates, they know how to navigate the intricacies of a transactions like no one else. Wishing them success for their future, don't be surprised if they reach Tier 1 status in 5-7 years.