Six law graduates Tuesday knocked the doors of the Gujarat High Court challenging the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) resolution that requires students like them to clear a test for getting a licence for legal practice.<\/p>\n
The division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi has posted the matter for hearing Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Petitioner Urshit Bhusan Oza and others filed an application in the high court challenging the provisions of rules 9, 10 and 11 of the Advocates Act, 1961.<\/p>\n
The rules require that a person applying for licence to practice in courts must be a law graduate.<\/p>\n
The BCI resolution states that law graduates must appear in an eligibility test to get the licence to practice law.<\/p>\n
Advocate for petitioners, Amit Panchal, submitted before the court that they completed their graduation in law in 2008-09 and completed specialization in 2009-10.<\/p>\n
They stated in the petition that the new resolution can only be applicable to them if the BCI does not consider their degree of 2008-09.<\/p>\n
They further submitted that their specialization in law was completed in 2009-10 and if the BCI considers 2009-10 as a cut off year then they would be granted a licence to practice which would be subject to the result of the eligibility test.<\/p>\n
Panchal said that the BCI would conduct the examination Dec 5 and this would lead to loss of six months to them due to implementation of the new rules.<\/p>\n
He requested the court to direct the BCI to grant them the licence to practice, while the petitioners would appear in the exams later.<\/p>\n
The continuation of the licence would be subject to the result of the test, Panchal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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