Law graduate wins his own case; to be enrolled as advocate
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai: 26.07.2018
A law graduate from Tirunelveli won his first case, incidentally to enrol as an advocate with the Bar council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, which had stalled his enrolment for more than two years after him completing a law degree.
Muthuvijayan had passed Class X through regular schooling in 2003 and then completed Class XII privately in 2008 after which he pursued a bachelor of law degree from the Government Law College, Tirunelveli.
His enrolment to the bar was stalled as Muthuvijayan finishing Class XII privately did not concur with bar council rules. Several petitions in this regard were pending before the Madras high court and two days ago, a full bench ruled that there is no bar on law graduates who had cleared their Class X and Class XII exams as private candidates to be enrolled as advocates.
In this particular case, which came before the first bench of justice C T Selvam and justice A M Basheer Ahmed, the bench directed the bar council to enrol the petitioner as an advocate. The bench also cited its observation it made when it ordered 196 grace marks to be awarded to Tamil medium students who took NEET examinations this year.
“We have tens of thousands of children, having to support a mother, siblings, ailing parents and elders and sometimes a deserving father, by eking out a living by earning that extra rupee which keeps the home fire burning and yet in real earnest pursue private study simply because they want to be educated. They want to lift themselves out of the squalor their lives are. Why are such children being deprived? Is it because they do not put in ‘n’ number of fixed hours of study?” the bench said in its order.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai: 26.07.2018
A law graduate from Tirunelveli won his first case, incidentally to enrol as an advocate with the Bar council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, which had stalled his enrolment for more than two years after him completing a law degree.
Muthuvijayan had passed Class X through regular schooling in 2003 and then completed Class XII privately in 2008 after which he pursued a bachelor of law degree from the Government Law College, Tirunelveli.
His enrolment to the bar was stalled as Muthuvijayan finishing Class XII privately did not concur with bar council rules. Several petitions in this regard were pending before the Madras high court and two days ago, a full bench ruled that there is no bar on law graduates who had cleared their Class X and Class XII exams as private candidates to be enrolled as advocates.
In this particular case, which came before the first bench of justice C T Selvam and justice A M Basheer Ahmed, the bench directed the bar council to enrol the petitioner as an advocate. The bench also cited its observation it made when it ordered 196 grace marks to be awarded to Tamil medium students who took NEET examinations this year.
“We have tens of thousands of children, having to support a mother, siblings, ailing parents and elders and sometimes a deserving father, by eking out a living by earning that extra rupee which keeps the home fire burning and yet in real earnest pursue private study simply because they want to be educated. They want to lift themselves out of the squalor their lives are. Why are such children being deprived? Is it because they do not put in ‘n’ number of fixed hours of study?” the bench said in its order.
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