Plea Filed in SC Challenging BCI Mandate to Scrap 1 Year LLM

On January 4, the bar council of India took a step to change the legal education framework by notifying the new rules. The new rules mandate 2 year LLM courses. It also derecognises 1 year LLM courses as a consequence. The new development has created quite a stir among the student community in India. Responding to the new rules, a law student Tamanna Chandan Chachlani, through Rahul Shyam Bhandari, advocate-on-record has challenged the  Bar Council of India decision to scrap the one-year LL.M course.

The petitioner has made the following contentions:

The rules are discriminatory and violate the fundamental right to education. 

The rules pose an interference in the right to practice one's profession and are likely to affect the future career prospects in terms of choosing quality education.

no rational clarification for abolishing the one-year LL.M program. 

Other notable changes in the rules:

LL.M admission to be taken on the basis of  Post Graduate Common Entrance Test in Law (PGCETL) merit list. 

LL.M. degree obtained from a Foreign University, which has been prosecuted without an equivalent LL.B. degree shall not be equivalent to Indian LL.M. degree.