The seventh All India Bar Exam (AIBE) that was scheduled for 27 July 2014 has been postponed by at least a month, for the second time this year, according to a notification by the Bar Council of India (BCI) published today.
The notification on the official website read:
As per the Council decision, the examination date for AIBE-VII has been postponed by one month and therefore the registration date has also been extended. The new date schedule for AIBE-VII will soon be updated.
The BCI has also published an official notification on its website that the exam was postponed because “some of the University of Gujarat State had declared the result of the 3 year and 5 year LL.B. Course, but the work of distribution of mark sheet has not started till date”, that some universities in the state had not declared its results yet, while the Andhra Pradesh bar council had said that enrolment of advocates had stopped because of the bifurcation of the state. The Madhya Pradesh bar council had also said that the currently scheduled date would clash with the judicial exam in the state on 27 July.
“Various letters have also been received from M/s ITES Horizon Pvt. Ltd. requesting to extend the date of examination on the various grounds,” the notice added. ITES Horizon is the contractor that was tasked with carrying out the AIBE.
The BCI would communicate the new extended registration date on its website shortly, it wrote.
This AIBE had already been postponed by a month in April after a redesign of the official AIBE website was delayed.
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The entire Bar exam saga is this mess of "unavoidable" grounds that duly plays itself out twice a year.
Most law schools end their sessions in May. There was no logic for first scheduling the exam to the 27th of June, or giving an extension of just one month. The results as a matter of practice are declared at least one month later. Even if they are, enrollment schedules of the various bar councils are erratic. In those circumstances, the only option one is left with is to get some sort of "tatkal" enrollment done, of course at great personal cost of the applicant, which is not only financial, but also mental. It is not very difficult to forsee such situations, especially for a body like the BCI.
One expects that maybe such a mess-up will occur once, when they are learning,and then learn from mistakes of the past and come up with robust processes and practices for such an integral function of the BCI. Alas, their past mistakes seem to be of no avail.
This kind of management of the exam has become a routine feature. Members of the BCI are truly illustrious people of our profession. For whatever reason, it is seldom that their capabilities can be seen at display at the BCI. Giving the hon'ble members of the BCI the benefit of the doubt, if it is not a a case of incompetence, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that of callousness. The representative body of lawyers should definitely not be known for callousness or incompetence in its most visible function.
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