The Bar Council of India (BCI) today informed the Delhi High Court that a team of seven members has inspected Delhi University Law Faculty's three centres after the varsity applied for inspection for continued affiliation to the apex lawyers' body.
BCI's response came during the hearing of PIL seeking setting aside of a notification barring fresh law graduates of DU from being enrolled as lawyers.
The counsel for BCI informed the bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw that the inspection report has been prepared and will be submitted before the legal education committee, which will assemble on November 27-28.
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The lawyer said that the findings of the committee will be most likely be given in first week of December.
The inspection was required as BCI on September 23 had issued a letter to Bar Council of Delhi (BCD), other state bar councils and to DU's Vice Chancellor that the students admitted from 2011-2012 and passing out in 2013-2014 would not be enrolled as advocates, as the university had not renewed or applied for inspection with BCI after 2010.
BCI is the statutory body which regulates all law courses in the country.
Following this, Vijay Kumar Chaurasia, Assistant Professor at Law Centre-II in the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, moved the court on October 1, saying the law students, who took admission in 2011 and graduated in 2014 from DU's Law Centres, have "wrongfully and illegally" been denied enrollment as advocates.
