Exclusive: The Supreme Court today allowed the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) transfer petition clubbing together six high court writ petitions challenging the all India bar examination (AIBE) but declined to hear the exam’s constitutional validity just now citing its postponement to March next year.

The National Law University of Orissa at Cuttack would continue to hold its own law entrance test instead of conducting selection of students on the basis of CLAT (Common Law Entrance Test) said its vice-chancellor to blog CLAT Gyan.

University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashta University, Delhi made its debut in the MPL 2 by defeating UILS Chandigarh in the finals of the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition North India Rounds.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published the pro-forma undertaking that 2010 graduates will need sign before practising, agreeing to take and pass the bar exam in future.

HNLU Raipur defeated NLU Jodhpur in the finals of the first edition of NLIU Juris Corp Moot Court Competition, taking HNLU to joint 5th place in MPL season 2, whereas last season’s number four NLU Jodhpur has moved to joint 19th spot.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has circulated a resolution to state bar councils to make 2010 graduates give an undertaking to pass the bar exam before practising law.

The Bar Council of India’s website has officially confirmed that the bar exam has been postponed to 6 March 2011, although only shortly afterwards the website went offline after the domain name barcouncilofindia.org was not renewed.

NUJS Kolkata won the India Rounds and the best memorandum award at 12th Commonwealth Moot Court Competition, scoring 15 MPL points and a ticket to the international rounds of the Commonwealth Moot next year.

Latest update: All 2010 law graduates may be able to practise law subject to giving an undertaking they would clear the all-India bar exam within two years, according to a bar council source.

In an unexpected turn the all India bar examination (AIBE) transfer petition may now be scheduled for hearing by a division bench on or after 29 November according to one authoritative source, with completion of the summoning process making way for adjudication on merits.

Two-year-old national law school NLU Delhi has hired former Nalsar Hyderabad graduate and law firm associate as a consultant to coach, advise and nurture its mooting teams as the fledgling college is now ranked in a strong fourth place in Legally India’s Mooting Premier League (MPL).

An email from the BCI has confirmed that the bar exam date has been “pushed” and that the body would make a formal statement on 25 November.

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HNLU Raipur has appointed former Punjab University’s department of law chairman Prof Paramjit S Jaswal as its new vice chancellor for a term of five years, reported student website Lawctopus.

MPL Season 1 champion Nalsar Hyderabad won the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition South India Rounds to score 20 points in the MPL Season 2 as Nuals Cochi took home the same number of points as finalist and best memorandum winner.

Exclusive: Bar Council of India (BCI) members passed a resolution in the absence of chairman Gopal Subramanium today to postpone the bar exam by three months until 6th March 2011, as the BCI is also understood to have discussed future involvement by Rainmaker.

Exclusive: Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has agreed with Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario to send one student per year for a semester to the Canadian University and up to six students to the college’s UK-based summer school, as well as entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Toronto’s Osgoode Law School of York University.

The Aurangabad student respondents’ counsel in the bar exam Supreme Court transfer petition decided against a second mentioning of an interim stay application after having been declined once before by the Chief’s court, as the Chamber judge is likely to take up the matter for non-prosecution after three months in line with standard procedural practices in the apex court.

The twenty-ninth annual John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition saw an all Indian final in the Ambassador Rounds as GNLU Gandhinagar overcame SOEL Chennai to bag three points in the Mooting Premier League 2.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has again deferred the bar exam writ petition hearing today to 1 December citing inability to take up the matter in view of the ongoing Supreme Court proceedings and transfer petition.