Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat has dropped most financial penalties it could levy on students and ended the disciplinary practice of “gating” or restraining students’ exits from campus.

The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) convenor GNLU Gandhinagar has formally notified the inclusion of Tamil Nadu National Law School in Srirangam to its website, little under a week after the Madras high court ordered it to do so, following a petition by a local advocate pitching for inclusion of t...

At least 10 national law university LLB graduates have made the cut at the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Mains exam for 2013, with a Nalsar Hyderabad graduate in the top 10 rankers and four others in the top 100. Two law graduates from Symbiosis Pune and IP University Delhi have also cleare...

A Madras high court bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and V M Velumani has ordered the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) convenor GNLU Gandhinagar to list the new Tamil Nadu National Law School (TN NLS) in Srirangam to its website, after having earlier told GNLU to provisionally allocate 14 places...

Update 10 June : Notice was served this morning on the CLAT secretariat, which is to respond by 18 June. Agarwal said that there was no stay on the counselling, though the prayer for the suit was for the CLAT result to be “withdrawn completely” so there was still scope for the court to intervene. A ...

Private law colleges have risen the India Today annual law college rankings faster than their national law school counterparts, with Symbiosis Law School Pune, Amity Law School Delhi and Bharati Vidyapeeth New Law College Pune all rising in the rankings as against last year. NLSIU Bangalore and Nals...

In a press release, GNLU Gandhinagar has announced that results for the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) are now available for download but students have continued questioning the accuracy of the results. The note by the CLAT convenor, GNLU, confirmed that 33,491 results would be published today, a...

Several 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) candidates have reported that the CLAT help desk has told them that the results, which were withdrawn after they were riddled with errors after their first release on 30 May, would be available tomorrow at 5pm. Two candidates shared the following emails...

Results for the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) will only be released within a week, with convenor GNLU Gandhinagar having to manually cross check all 33,491 answer sheets, CLAT committee member and NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay told the Times of India . GNLU director Bimal Pate...

Former NLSIU Bangalore registrar V Nagaraj will re-join NLSIU on 6 June as professor, after he resigned as NLUO Cuttack’s vice chancellor (VC) over differences with NLUO’s executive council (EC) member and Orissa high court sitting judge justice Indrajit Mohanty.

NLUO Cuttack vice chancellor (VC) Prof V Nagaraj left the university yesterday. He resigned from the post of VC on 16 May and his resignation was accepted by the university yesterday.

GNLU Gandhinagar, the convenor of this year’s Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT), has promised to investigate and fix candidates complaints of wrong grades on the 2014 exam, which was apparently caused by a mix up of stickers and bar codes on exam papers. The announcement follows GNLU withdrawing Sat...

The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) held by GNLU Gandhinagar has seen the withdrawak of the results under further notice, only a few hours after applicants started alleging yesterday, as reported by Legally India , that major mistakes were made in the grading of many exam papers. The official CLAT...

Dozens, some claim hundreds, of students who took the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) are claiming that there has been a serious error in the marking of their results, demanding to see their optical mark recognition (OMR) answer sheets. One CLAT taker wrote: “I received my CLAT 2014 result to...

NLU Delhi became the first Indian team to win the ICC Trial moot at the Hague, Netherlands, while the law school’s Manfred Lachs team picked up the Asia Pacific trophy.

Government Law College Mumbai principal and former district judge RB Malik has quit after two years of strong rumours that he was hoping to leave after having been pressured to accept the job by politics. “I have been a judge my whole life. The college was not my cup of tea. The government must brin...

The 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) conducted by GNLU Gandhinagar released an answer key to candidates that contained at least four wrong answers, sending CLAT candidates into confusion over whether these will be fixed by the convenors.

RMLNLU Lucknow has lowered its undergraduate five-year BA LLB course fees to Rs 1.05 lakh per year after having doubled its fees from Rs 74,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh per year in 2013, reported the Times of India . Students had protested the fee hike, which was apparently the first since the university star...

31,231 national law school hopefuls sat the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) conducted by GNLU Gandhinagar this weekend, which was the lowest growth rate recorded since the exam began in 2008.

The sexual harassment case against NUJS Kolkata assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who was arrested late last year after a female staff member accused him of sexual harassment and violent threats, has climbed to the apex court over cancellation of his bail. The woman, represented by advocates Sidd...