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Breaking: Judicial committee to probe RMLNLU students’ sex harassment allegations: VC
A judicial committee will be investigating the sexual harassment complaints made by RMLNLU Lucknow students who had written a letter to their chancellor and the state’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath that a senior staff member had sexually harassed female students.
Read the letter RMLNLU students sent to Yogi Adityanath, alleging consistent sex harassment by senior official [UPDATE-1]
A senior official at RMLNLU Lucknow has been accused of sexually harassing female students, in a letter sent by students of the law school to RMLNLU chancellor and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, which was first reported by the Times of India:
GNLU registrar plays detective to hunt down campus marijuana by allegedly impersonating student on WhatsApp
GNLU Gandhinagar’s administration allegedly accessed the private phone records of several students of the law school, after it suspected them of possessing marijuana on campus.
GLC Mumbai students lose out on Harvard LLM offers after Mumbai Univ’s exam digitisation fail
Several GLC Mumbai students are stuck with allegedly wrong results to their end semester examinations, after the Mumbai University’s severely disorganised attempt at going digital with its examination process for all Mumbai University-affiliated law and other colleges this year.
Next All India Bar Exam (AIBE) is scheduled to happen in 3 months, 9 months after previous one
The 11th bar exam held by the Bar Council of India (BCI) will happen on 3 December 2017, according to a notification on its website.
Next All India Bar Exam (AIBE) is happening in 3 months
The 11th bar exam held by the Bar Council of India (BCI) will happen on 3 December 2017, according to a notification on its website.
NUJS student assocation launches mobile app to bring students even closer together
NUJS Kolkata’s Student Juridical Association (SJA) launched its own app to connect the law school’s student body and give it easier access to the administration, on Friday.
Ambedkar Law University VC search comm stalled by HC for low creds
Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University will be without a vice chancellor (VC) until a proper search committee replaces the current one on the proceedings of which the Madras high court ordered stay, as reported by PTI.
It’s official: GNLU beats Nalsar, NLS, NUJS to win MPL 7, after rocking ELSA moot and season
GNLU Gandhinagar registered another set of points in the penultimate moot of the MPL VII and has won its first ever MPL victory in what was clearly the most competitive MPL season in the history of all MPL seasons.
4 months after NUSRL Ranchi student strike, students claim changes merely cosmetic, problems persist [READ LETTER]
NUSRL Ranchi’s four-day lockdown protest in April had ostensibly achieved administration acknowledgement of many of the top demands of protesting students.
JGLS law grads to get near-direct entry to Australian legal profession (where things for foreigners are much simpler than here)
JGLS Sonepat is the first from India to make it to a list of colleges from 18 countries for which Australia has relaxed the criteria to practice law indigenously.
NLU Jodhpur third year student found dead, suicide suspected
NLU Jodhpur third year student Vikrant Nagaich was found dead near the rail track opposite the law school’s campus on Monday, in a suspected case of suicide, reported the Times of India.
‘Largest employer of NLU graduates’: Jindal law school hires 25 new teachers, 32% NLU alums
JGLS Sonepat has recruited 25 new faculty, including eight national law university (NLU) graduates, to take its total faculty tally to 140 and that of teachers who are NLU graduates to 44.
NUJS students protest vs hurried CCTV dark age on campus, allege cameras encourage sex harassment by staff [UPDATE]
Female students of NUJS Kolkata have alleged being harassed, including sexually, on campus by male staff who also have access to video footage of them through Close Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV) that had been installed by the administration.
NLIU Bhopal selects student mentors to help freshers overcome “initial barriers” to becoming happy lawyers
NLIU Bhopal has launched a compulsory mentorship program for first year LLB students, which follows NLSIU Bangalore’s mentorship model, but is a little more structured.
Revealed: Bar exam earned BCI up to Rs 70 cr ($10m) revenues in 6 years from nearly 3 lakh candidates
The Bar Council of India (BCI) earned between Rs 59 to Rs 70 crore in fees from nearly 300,000 bar exam candidates since March 2011, a right to information (RTI) response, filed by Mohit Gupta, a Delhi University LLB student, has revealed.
DSNLU student-drafted NLU bill now introduced in Lok Sabha for 'National Importance' status to NLUs
A DSNLU Vizag student has drafted a bill to provide for Institute of National Importance (INI) status to national law universities (NLUs), to bring the NLUs under central funding and supervision.
Nalsar to get 23+ acres for new academies and 3 year LLB program with 50% domicile reservation
Nalsar Hyderabad will have more than 23 acres of land, additional to its present campus, to start a lawyers academy and a teacher’s training academy, along with two new hostels, and a new LLB program within the coming year.
NLIU bans 6 ragging suspects from hostels (but no suspension, pending investigation)
NLIU Bhopal has barred six students from using its hostels pending its investigation into ragging allegations made anonymously against them, but the students have not been suspended from the law school itself contrary to media reports.
NLIU Bhopal investigates ‘challenging’ anonymous online ragging complaint
NLIU Bhopal is currently investigating complaints of ragging that were registered with the University Grants Commission (UGC), purportedly by first year LLB students of the law school against their seniors, as first reported by the Express.