SC asks state bar councils for lists of senior advocates to train students

The Supreme Court has asked all the state bar councils to explain if they have prepared a list of senior advocates willing to train law students when the courts are on vacation, observing that the 2008 Rules of Legal Education ought to be complied with the bar councils across the country.

- Utkarsh Anand

A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta pointed out that the 2008 Rules envisaged the Bar Council of India (BCI)- the apex body to regulate legal education and profession in the country, to publish the lists prepared by the state bar councils for the benefit of law students. "There has to be a compliance with your own rules. When your own rules provide for it, you must publish these lists and put them on your website. What have you done?" the bench asked advocate Radhika Gautam, who appeared for the BCI. Gautam responded that th