Issue provisional certificates to law grads, HC orders BCG
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 22.10.2024
Ahmedabad : In a huge relief for law graduates, whose requests for provisional enrolment were not being considered by the Bar Council of Gujarat (BCG), the Gujarat high court on Monday directed the BCG to grant provisional certificates to them and other such students from the state so they could practise law. A provisional certificate will enable them to take the All-India Bar (AIB) examination, which is mandatory for permanent enrolment with the Bar Council. Lawyers involved in the litigation said that around 5,000 law graduates would benefit from the HC’s interim order. More than 2,600 applications for provisional enrolment, submitted by law graduates from govt law colleges and grant-in-aid law colleges, are yet to be processed by the BCG. Students from 19-20 such institutions, awaiting provisional enrolment, had approached the high court as Bar Council of India (BCI) had not renewed the recognition of their colleges.
This was due to their failure to meet certain criteria, including the appointment of adequate faculty members and failure to pay inspection fees to the BCI. The students submitted before the HC that they took admission through a common admission process after applying to the respective universities. The colleges, whether they had BCI approval or not, were featured on the websites of the universities which had given the students admission to those colleges. However, since the colleges did not have approvals from the BCI, the BCG had not been processing their applications. Justice Aniruddha Mayee ordered the BCG to process the applications and issue provisional certificates, subject to the verification of forms and other documents later, so the students could practise law.
The HC extended the deadline for submitting the applications from Oct 24 to Oct 31 in the interest of the law graduates. The HC made it clear that “the present direction is passed in peculiar circumstances in the state of Gujarat and should not be treated as a precedent.”
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