Law Graduates Who Pursue Jobs Unconnected To Legal Field For More Than 5 Yrs Will Have To Re-Appear For AIBE: BCI Tells Supreme Court

In an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, the BCI said:

"If a person remains in service having no connection/relationship with legal or judicial matters, then in that case, such candidate shall be required to clear the AIBE again if he/she decides to get his/her license to practice revived after remaining in the job for more than 5 years from the date of the publication of his/her result of AIBE."

This stipulation, however, will not apply to candidates joining as Public Prosecutor or A.P.P. or some judicial service or some other service like that of Law Officers in some corporate or Government offices.

Such persons shall stand on "different footing" and will not be required to appear at the AIBE again, the statutory body said.

The decision was taken in a meeting held on July 8, pursuant to the Supreme Court directing BCI to consider balancing its requirement to resign from current employment at the time of seeking enrolment and the difficulties of such candidates who are apprehensive of leaving their jobs even before appearing in AIBE.

The direction was made in BCI's appeal against a judgment of the Gujarat High Court, which allowed persons with other employments, whether full time or part-time, to enrol as Advocates without resigning from their jobs.

In its resolution, the BCI also said it can grant a 6-months window to law graduates to quit their jobs after declaration of result of the All India Bar Examination for enrolment as an Advocate.

Details Here: Can Permit Law Graduates In Other Jobs To Provisionally Enrol As Advocates On Undertaking To Resign In 6 Months After Clearing AIBE: BCI Tells SC

Case Title: Bar Council of India v. Twinkle Rahul Mangonkar And Ors. Civil Appeal No. 816-817 of 2022