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Record 270+ budding Bombay solicitors prepare for gruelling Monday test

Bombay solicitors
Bombay solicitors
Around 273 candidates will sit for the latest Bombay solicitors exam on Monday – an increase of 40 per cent as against test takers 18 months ago.

Jindal pulls up after Nani Palkhivala win, as RMLNLU tops Nalsar BR Sawhney

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat won the tenth edition of the Nani Palkhivala tax moot court competition at GLC Mumbai and RMLNLU Lucknow won the seventh Justice BR Sawhney moot at Nalsar Hyderabad this weekend.

NLU D leads MPL 5 table after Lachs moot semis, as NLIU, GNLU win Raj Anand, Christ

NLIU Bhopal won the 13th edition of the Raj Anand moot court competition and GNLU Gandhinagar won the fourth edition of the SLCU National Moot.

All India Bar Exam (AIBE 5) results available for download

AIBE results
AIBE results
August 2013 AIBE results now out.

NLU Jodhpur presents: India’s first sports fest live blog

NLU Jodhpur is liveblogging its sports fest! The Yuvardha III kicked off yesterday with its opening ceremony and will continue from today until Sunday, 29 September. Click here to check out the fantastic blow-by-blow account legal eagles’ sporting prowess.

KIIT, NLU-O take MPL 5 lead after BCI, Surana wins, ahead of Henry Dunant winner Jodhpur

KIIT Bhubaneshwar and NLU Orissa are leading twelve law schools that have opened their Mooting Premiere League (MPL) season 5 accounts with wins and citations in the Henry Dunant India rounds, the Surana Information Technology (IT) moot and the Bar Council of India (BCI) moot.

NUJS shelves sex harassment cell’s 2-to-1 call that lewd inter-staff messages were ‘romantic’

NUJS
NUJS
Dissenting member terms the majority finding of the committee ‘unreasonable and not acceptable’.

HRD mulls alternative scheme for foreign universities’ entry; Educators lukewarm

As the Human Resource Development Ministry is planning new rules to allow the world’s top 400 universities to open up in India, sidestepping the current legislative deadlock around foreign universities entering India, reported the Wall Street Journal . However, foreign educators told the India Real ...

Jindal expels and suspends students for ragging

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat expelled four students and suspended 12 others for bullying first-year students, reported the Times of India . JGLS registrar YSR Murthy told the paper that the action was taken within 24 hours of the administration receiving the complaint of bullying, through...

NLSIU RTI: Cheating not possible, Chauhan not exactly dismissed; Petitioner to appeal

NLSIU Bangalore has admitted that its teachers did not hold any formal discussions about a faculty member’s allegations that the law school’s students cheated in examinations. The reply was to one of several queries in the first appeal to alumnus Prashant Reddy’s Right to Information (RTI) request ....

Delhi HC catches CLAT 2012 mistake, but too late to effect lost Nalsar preference

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A Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 examinee lost out on a Nalsar Hyderabad seat due to a mistake in last year’s question paper, the Delhi high court has held.

SILF-MILAT comes up with list of institutional leaders and best teachers

Prof (Justice) Avadh Behari Rohatgi – father of senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi – was posthumously awarded the SILF-MILAT Distinguished Law Teacher Award 2013 on 1 September, at the “fifth law teacher’s day” celebrated by the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) and NLSIU Bangalore founder Prof Madhav M...

NUJS internal sexual harassment committee miffed at FIR & media reports

NUJS Kolkata’s staff sexual harassment victim on Friday accused the law school’s internal complaints committee (ICC) of bias after the ICC expressed its displeasure at her lodging a criminal complaint against the accused, as well as at media coverage of the issue, reported the Calcutta Telegraph . A...

NLSIU dodges appeals to alum’s dodged RTIs

NLSIU Bangalore has ignored appeals filed by its alumnus Prashant Reddy over the law school’s perfunctory right to information (RTI) replies to his queries. In three RTIs filed in June Reddy had asked for details of the law school’s exam re-evaluation system, reasons for the dismissal of former facu...

‘Moderate’ difficulty: How was the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) for you?

Did you sit the fifth AIBE today (25 August 2013)? How was it for you? Did the questions make sense? Was there enough time? Did anyone cheat?

Alleged NUJS sexual harasser suspended by college after dodging inquiry

NUJS Kolkata on Saturday suspended the administrative employee accused by a colleague of sexual harassment, who was due to file a written reply to an inquiry committee at the law school. The law school cited non-cooperation as the reason for suspension. NUJS registrar Surojit Mukhopadhyay told The T...

NUJS alleged sexual harasser files for anticipatory bail, is still untraceable

The NUJS Kolkata staffer who was not traceable after a colleague accused him of sexual harassment, physical assault and criminal intimidation by threat of an acid attack, has filed for anticipatory bail. The Bidhannagar police, which is looking for the accused, told the Times of India : “There is su...

NUJS staff sexual harassment: accused untraceable, admin refuses leave extension, to call cops if returns

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NUJS Cal
The NUJS Kolkata staffer who has been on leave since another member of staff accused him of sexual harassment in June, could not be found by police.

NLIU Bhopal recruitment forecast bleak as Amarchand & LPO flag off late Day Zero in limp economy

Bhopal
Bhopal
NLIU Bhopal started its Day Zero recruitment efforts today to low turnout, around four months after other top law schools.

The other AP NLU: 43.5 sq ft per student & no hostels as DSNLU Vizag faces Rs 40 cr crunch

The Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University (DSNLU) Vizag in Vishakhapatnam is Rs 40 crore behind on the minimum funds required to set up its own campus. It is currently operating from a 20,000 square feet rented building for its 460 students, who are housed in private hostels across Vizag with...