‘No bar on candidates from open schools enrolling as lawyers’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:24.07.2018
A full bench of Madras high court has ruled that there is no bar on law graduates who had cleared their Class 10 and 12 board exams as private candidates, to be enrolled as advocates.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Indira Banerjee, Justice R Subbaiah and Justice Abdhul Quddhose, passing orders on a batch of petitions on Monday, said that if it was the Bar Council’s intention that for admission to 3-year LLB courses, a candidate should obtain secondary school certificate and senior secondary school certificate through regular course, the Legal Education Rules would have specifically provided so.
The bench, however, made it clear that those who obtain graduate degree through an Open University system without having the basic qualification — Class XII certificates — or equivalent from a board authorized to confer such certificates, cannot get admission. The Bar Council of India, in its wisdom, framed the Legal Education Rules making a regular graduate degree from a university, mandatory eligibility criteria. The issue pertains to a batch of pleas moved by candidates whose enrolment applications were withheld by the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as they had completed their schooling privately, but had successfully completed law degree under a university recognised by the Bar Council .
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:24.07.2018
A full bench of Madras high court has ruled that there is no bar on law graduates who had cleared their Class 10 and 12 board exams as private candidates, to be enrolled as advocates.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Indira Banerjee, Justice R Subbaiah and Justice Abdhul Quddhose, passing orders on a batch of petitions on Monday, said that if it was the Bar Council’s intention that for admission to 3-year LLB courses, a candidate should obtain secondary school certificate and senior secondary school certificate through regular course, the Legal Education Rules would have specifically provided so.
The bench, however, made it clear that those who obtain graduate degree through an Open University system without having the basic qualification — Class XII certificates — or equivalent from a board authorized to confer such certificates, cannot get admission. The Bar Council of India, in its wisdom, framed the Legal Education Rules making a regular graduate degree from a university, mandatory eligibility criteria. The issue pertains to a batch of pleas moved by candidates whose enrolment applications were withheld by the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as they had completed their schooling privately, but had successfully completed law degree under a university recognised by the Bar Council .
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