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641.
Should 80 year-olds be allowed to study law?
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(Blog: About external articles)
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The Mumbai Mirror wrote about a gentleman this week who is "probably city's oldest law student" at 80 years of age. If so, he is lucky to have slipped through the age-barrier net that has been woven by the ...
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Created on 24 September 2009
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642.
Moily sides with BCI in legal education spat
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(Blog: News and current affairs)
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... the law ministry has to consider. That is the domain of the law ministry."
This follows the Bar Council of India (BCI) disapproving of the HRD's move to take control of legal education.
In Moily the ...
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Created on 21 September 2009
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643.
Corruption allegations halt Chief Justice SC appointment
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(Blog: News and current affairs)
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... Supreme Court. President of the Supreme Court Bar Association M N Krishnamani and the Delhi High Court Bar Association President K C Mittal in a joint statement demanded a change in the existing collegiums ...
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Created on 17 September 2009
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644.
BCI not happy with disenfranchisement
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(Blog: About external articles)
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... Firms (SILF), after talks with Law Minister Veerappa Moily, also expected that legal education would be taken under the umbrella of the HRD. The Bar Council of India (BCI) is displeased about plans to ...
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Created on 07 September 2009
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645.
No change to Press Notes 2 and 4 - surprise!?
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(Blog: News and current affairs)
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... current legal advisers Legally India has unsuccessfully been trying to confirm for ages – embarked on the first steps to an ambitious restructuring to increase foreign investment stakes in reliance on ...
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Created on 28 August 2009
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646.
Degree in LPO, anyone?
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(Blog: Blawg-osphere)
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A new university course offering a qualification in legal process outsourcing (LPO) has been launched in a barrage of acronyms.
The course is a joint venture between Indian legal training providers/recruiters ...
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Created on 29 July 2009
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647.
Judges fight back against violence meted out by advocates
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(Blog: News and current affairs)
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... of the lower court bar gathered.
The Judicial Officers Association issued a press calling a general meeting to discuss the growing number of incidents of court room hooliganism.
Bar Council of ...
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Created on 10 July 2009
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648.
Bar Council loves new service tax
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(Blog: About external articles)
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It turns out not all lawyers are against being charged service tax...
The Bar Council of India for one has come out in favour of the tax change that was introduced in Monday's budget, which meant that ...
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Created on 08 July 2009
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649.
History repeating: BCI knocks own website offline after (again) forgetting to renew BarCouncilofIndia.org [UPDATE]
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(Bar, Bench & Litigation)
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The official website of the Bar Council of India (BCI) at www.barcouncilofindia.org has gone offline, after its domain name apparently expired on Saturday 26 November.
The official website of the ...
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Created on 28 November 2016
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650.
BCI’s All India Bar Exam date pushed by another 2+ months to 2021 (obviously)
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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The 15th All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed yet again, this time to early 2021.
Online registrations for AIBE XV, which is held in physical test centres, have been extended to 3 December 2020, ...
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Created on 22 October 2020
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651.
BCI pushes new potential All India Bar Exam date to 8 November 2020
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced a new date for the postponed All India Bar Exam (AIBE), setting it a conservative date for the exam to be physically held in exam centres, on 8 November 2020, ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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652.
BCI opens All India Bar Exam XIV registrations for 25 August (subject to change at unfettered discretion, no refunds, natch)
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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For all budding lawyers who can’t wait to be real lawyers, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has opened online registrations for the next All India Bar Exam (AIBE), which will probably be held on 25 August ...
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Created on 10 June 2019
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653.
BCI manages to beat delayed timetable, publishes results for All India Bar Exam 13
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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The Bar Council of India (BCI) has notified the results for the 13th All India Bar Exam (AIBE), after its third postponement on 12 March 2019 had predicted that the results would tentatively be out by ...
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Created on 15 March 2019
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654.
BCI postpones All India Bar Exam results for 3rd time, now ‘tentatively’ by March-end
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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The Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the announcement of the results for the 13th All India Bar Exam (AIBE), held on 23 December 2018, for the third time, pushing candidates’ wait for the grading ...
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Created on 12 March 2019
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655.
3 months after 7-year-late election, Bihar confirms reelection of ex-BCI chair Manan Kumar Mishra + 24 to state bar council
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(Bar, Bench & Litigation)
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Nearly three months after overdue elections were held on the Supreme Court’s order for the Bihar bar council on 27 March, the vote counting is now complete and has confirmed the 25 winning members, including ...
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Created on 18 June 2018
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656.
Business as usual: 2 months after OMR All India Bar Exam 10, BCI promises results out on 8 June
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced on its website that the results for the tenth All India Bar Exam (AIBE), which took place on 26 March 2017, would be announced on 8 June by 5pm on its official ...
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Created on 02 June 2017
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657.
In transparency shocker, bar council meetings get blanket RTI immunity from Delhi HC judge (who is an ex-BCI counsel)
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(Bar, Bench & Litigation)
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The Delhi high court has bizarrely exempted state bar councils from the statutory duty to publish their meeting minutes online, on the ground that some of these minutes may contain third party information ...
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Created on 16 February 2017
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658.
New Indian Express is first mainstream paper to report BCI’s secret bar exam fee hike: Students apparently unhappy
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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Following our report of the Bar Council of India (BCI) very quietly, arguably deceptively having hiked the fees of the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) by another Rs 1,000 or 40%, at least one mainstream media ...
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Created on 07 February 2017
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659.
‘Prudent’ SC tells BCI to finally start bar council re-elections (as 11 are now unelected)
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(SCOI Reports)
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The Supreme Court today told the Bar Council of India (BCI) that state bar councils should hold elections, even if the BCI’s verification drive had not yet been completed, ordering the BCI to frame guidelines ...
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Created on 04 October 2016
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660.
Was the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) contract awarded honestly? Here are 5 things the SC should ask the BCI chairman on Friday to disprove that it wasn’t
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(Graduates & Bar Exam)
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If the Supreme Court is serious about examining the legality of the bar exam, it should also examine whether the award of the contract to ITES Horizon by the BCI was illegal, or worse... The Supreme ...
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Created on 16 March 2016