Commenced Enrolment In Compliance With SC Guidelines To Enable Final-Year Students To Appear For AIBE: WB Bar Council Tells Calcutta High Court

The Bar Council of West Bengal has told the Calcutta High Court that it has commenced the enrolment process of advocates in compliance with the Supreme Court's recently laid guidelines in order to enable final-year law students to appear in the upcoming All India Bar Examination (AIBE).

The Supreme Court had laid down guidelines for Bar Councils to levy a certain fixed sum as enrolment fees, as well as to allow final year law students without any back-papers to appear for the AIBE.

A division bench presided over by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam was dealing with the plea of such students who were apprehensive that the Bar Council enrollment process would not be completed in time for them to appear for AIBE.

However, the counsel appearing for the West Bengal Bar Council assured the court that the council was in the process of enrolling students and that the enrolment would be done throughout the court's vacation period in order to enable the students to appear for the AIBE.

Upon recording these submissions, the Court disposed of the plea.

Case: YASH JALAN AND ANR. VS THE BAR COUNCIL OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS

Case No: WPA (P) 409 of 2024