Breaking: Around 63 per cent passed the 8 January 2012 All India Bar Exam (AIBE) out of almost than 25,000 graduates who enrolled, said the Bar Council of India (BCI) today.

NLSIU Bangalore, Campus Law Centre Delhi, GLC Mumbai and Christ Law College Bangalore registered wins in the GNLU International Moot Court Competition (GIMC), Kerala Law Academy Moot, NUJS Herbert Smith National Corporate Law Moot Court Competition and the Surana Corporate Law Moot respectively.

Legally India blogs live from GLC Mumbai’s DM Harish 2012 moot court competition from Sunday evening. Plus 4 other moots this super mooting weekend. Stay tuned for updates.

Project Cloud’s latest competitions and calls for papers.

Justice KT Thomas’ 2009 review of NLSIU Bangalore focused on NLSIU students’ vision and academic issues but stopped short of looking deeper into the books of accounts or administration, unlike the hard-hitting Nalsar Hyderabad judicial inquiry from 2011.

Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad chancellor and Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice Madan B Lokur is seeking nominations to find Nalsar’s next vice chancellor (VC), as current VC Veer Singh has resigned the institution to join as a director of the Chandigarh Judicial Academy, according to several sources.

Results for the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) would be out within a week, said Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Ashok Parija, after the Supreme Court today granted interim relief over the Calcutta High Court’s stay of the exam results.

Editorial note : After publication of Monday’s report entitled Nalsargate exclusive: The inside story of a secret report and the quest for excellence , a flood of Nalsar Hyderabad alumni came out in force to support Nalsar’s dean of academic affairs Amita Dhanda via telephone and email. After detail...

Legally India has today filed right to information (RTI) requests with India’s seven oldest national law schools, seeking full financial accounts, council meeting minutes and other information.

The college’s public information officers supplied Legally India with a full copy of the 161-page report today via email.

NLIU Bhopal, in association with Surana & Surana International Attorneys is hosting a unique conference for moot organisers in India, which will attempt to debate, rationalise and standardise the various moot formats being followed in the country and come out with a single, unified moot format for the benefit of the mooting community.

Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad yesterday responded to Legally India’s Right to Information (RTI) request of 12 January, disclosing part of the highly critical September 2011 report of the three-judge committee headed by Justice Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri investigating the college.

Nalsar Hyderabad vice chancellor Veer Singh has been accused of “favouritism, abuse of authority, gross academic indiscipline and financial irregularities”, by Supreme Court and High Court judges in a report unearthed by state auditors, a copy of which Legally India has unsuccessfully tried to obtain for more than two weeks.

Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has been restrained from publishing the results to the third All India Bar Exam (AIBE) due today by the still effective Calcutta High Court’s stay.

An NLSIU Bangalore team of first and second years defeated NLIU Bhopal in the final rounds of the Rizvi International Moot.

Project Cloud’s latest competitions and calls for papers for February 2012.

NLU Delhi demolished the opposition in the Jessup North India qualifying rounds and the KK Luthra Memorial Moot, while NUJS Kolkata posted its first MPL 3 win in the anti-trust moot conducted by Christ University. NLSIU Bangalore continued with its winning ways, registering yet another moot win in the Rizvi International Moot.

NLSIU Bangalore pipped SOEL Chennai in the finals of the Jessup South India Qualifiers, beefing up its already huge lead this season.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) will engage a public relations (PR) consultancy and passed a resolution to agitate against the Human Resource Development ministry’s move to take away legal education, which the BCI said was “stealthily trying invite foreign firms”.

Exclusive: Only seven out of 196 or less than 4 per cent of examinees passed the latest Bombay Incorporated Law Society’s solicitors examination, erasing April’s temporary spike in pass rates to 7 per cent and showcasing undiminished demand for the qualification.