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29 October 2012
Law schools

JGLS baby stepsJGLS Sonipat, with the smallest class size out of all law schools in Legally India’s campus placement stories this year, achieved near 100 per cent campus placement for its first graduating batch of 23 students.

23 October 2012
Law schools

NLSIU Bangalore students resolved to petition the Press Council of India (PCI) on the unethical and sensationalist reporting of the alleged rape of a student of the college, by several newspapers last week. They also staged a protest demanding tighter security around their Nagarbhavi Bangalore campus.

On Saturday the Bangalore police arrested six of the eight alleged rapists who attacked the student in Bangalore University’s (BU) Jnanabharathi campus last Saturday. The detained persons confessed to having raped the student on 13 October. [Deccan Herald]

NLSIU students now plan to petition the governor of Karnataka demanding creation of the Nagarbhavi police station, increase in the number of police including women officers, deployment of policemen trained in handling crime against women, guarding of Bangalore University gates, installation of streetlights and creation of a police helpline.[TOI]

Last week Legally India reported on the victim-blaming tone adopted by the police, the media and BU throughout investigations into the incident, after BU threatened to evict NLSIU from its campus.

18 October 2012
Law schools

NLSIU Bangalore students will now have a 7 pm curfew on leaving campus, agreed Bangalore University (BU) authorities and the NLSIU management yesterday.[TOI]

The measure comes in the wake of Saturday’s alleged rape of a second-year NLSIU student by seven to eight unidentified persons in the forest adjoining the law school campus, where she was out with her friend after 10 PM.

NLSIU students have demanded deployment of the police or Central Industrial Security Forces in place of the current private security guards manning the college gates. The bigger IIM and IISc campuses in Bangalore do not enjoy such cover, although those are not next to forest land like NLSIU is. [India Today]

Yesterday Legally India reported on the victim-blaming tone adopted by the police, the media and BU throughout investigations into the incident, after BU threatened to evict NLSIU from its campus.

18 October 2012
Law schools

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]

15 October 2012
Law schools

Karnataka State Law University (KSLU) disallows LLM degree-holders from colleges not affiliated with it, from being appointed as law teachers in the university, if they have obtained their LLM degree after year 2011.

Local community president alleges that KSLU is itself not recognised by the BCI and the UGC.

The circular affects hundreds of post-graduates from the Bangalore University, Gulbarga and Mysore [Deccan Herald]

11 October 2012
Law schools

A day (zero) at NLU Delhi Exclusive: NLU Delhi placed five students from its first ever batch, which will graduate in 2013, in three Indian and one UK magic circle law firm in its ongoing recruitment efforts. Ten other law firms have expressed interest in conducting recruitment interviews for the batch of 2013 in the coming academic semester.

10 October 2012
Law schools

LLM: So long The duration of the LLM degree course in India will be halved to one year after the University Grants Commission (UGC) agreed with amended regulations last month but said it did not get around to discussing the actual guidelines to implement the new course.

28 September 2012
Law schools

Mumbai University’s law colleges have still not updated their course-curriculum in accordance with the year-2008 legal education regulations of the Bar Council of India (BCI). This was discovered when a law student of the university filed right to information requests to the university.

A Mumbai University official says:

Aided law colleges are already running into losses. They do not have enough teachers for existing programmes.

Colleges are worried about the unaided subjects for which they will need additional faculty. Colleges cannot take the extra burden of these new subjects prescribed by the BCI, when running the existing courses itself is a daunting task. [TOI]

28 September 2012
Law schools

Does the consumer’s right to be heard and redressed really exist in practice? NLSIU Bangalore students find out by using fairness creams, belly fat reduction gels, allegedly 24-hour-effective deodorants, and anti-dandruff shampoos, and then emailing the companies’ customer care departments asking some hard questions.

In their research they conclude that a majority of the departments were unresponsive [Mint]

27 September 2012
Law schools

The Bar Council of India (BCI) said it would reconsider its May resolution making it compulsory for law teachers to pay a recurring fee of Rs 3,000 to the regulator, by possibly decreasing but not completely scrapping this fee.

27 September 2012
Law schools

Dear final year students worried about not cracking BigLaw: Do you want to build a diverse work profile, show the confidence to go solo a few years on, have senior lawyers as friends and not just colleagues, and maintain work-life balance while you’re at it? Give small law firms a shot and continue learning the law [Survive Law]

25 September 2012
Law schools

The latest state government nominee to NUJS Kolkata’s academic council and executive council rejected the offer of honorary appointment to the posts after his nomination generated allegations of political favouritism in the legal community at large.

It was suggested that Suvaprasanna, an artist with no legal background, was nominated because of his closeness to West Bengal chief minister Mamta Banerjee.

The nomination was a “show of shameless favouritism”, wrote The Statesman two weeks ago.

The post was left open for nomination after the previous state government nominee former Bombay High Court judge Chittosh Mukherjee’s term on the council expired on August 23.

Suvaprasanna who was not consulted by the state government before his nomination, said:

I am already a member of the Railway Amenities Committee and a member of the heritage committee. I understand these subjects, but I don’t know anything about the legal matters and have always maintained a distance from it. So I can’t not give any advice to the institute either. [Express]

24 September 2012
Law schools

Meaningful relationships for congenial legal educationThe legal education committee of the Bar Council of India (BCI) yesterday published a notification on its website inviting suggestions for improving legal education, one month after a group of 80 Indian law teachers petitioned to the regulator to “consult more meaningfully” with legal academics while framing legal education policies.

21 September 2012
Law schools

NUJS Exclusive: NUJS Kolkata banned a third-year student from representing the college in external activities this academic year, after a first-year student alleged he was ragged by his senior.

19 September 2012
Law schools

RGNUL new campus In RGNUL Patiala’s second graduating batch more than 53 per cent were placed after the largest part of the batch joined court practice and many others secured law firm positions through internships.

18 September 2012
Law schools

Nusrl Ranchi: Good intentions & beginningsNUSRL Ranchi is ready to move from its present campus space of five classrooms in BIT Mesra’s Polytechnic clinic to its own 63-acres Nagri Village site after six students of the law school won a land dispute with the local village community in the Jharkhand high court on Tuesday, bringing the stalled construction of the university’s campus back on track if it manages to fill its funding gap.