Delhi high court directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to make a team of experts and conduct surprise visits to Indian law colleges to see its actual condition.
Observing the shortcomings of legal education in India, Delhi high court directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to constitute special expert teams to conduct surprise visits to law colleges across the country.
"It is directed that the BCI should constitute special expert teams to conduct surprise visits of the colleges that lack minimum infrastructure and adequate facilities. The inspection reports of the college teaching law on its website shall be uploaded within one month of such inspection. If any colleges upon such inspection are found to be lacking minimum infrastructural facilities, then the BCI must take immediate steps to close such colleges," said the court order, as reported by Times Now.
"BCI shall upload such inspection reports on its website within one month and also take immediate steps to close those colleges that are found lacking minimum infrastructural facilities," said Justice Chandra Dhari Singh, as reported by Live Law.
Legal education suffers due to commercialisation of education, says court
The court also added that it is the commercialisation of education that is affecting the legal education of the country as more students get enrolled in batches without the colleges upgrading the existing infrastructure.
"Therefore, any attempts at commercialisation of education especially that of legal education while imperilling the qualitative imparting of education must be derided and frowned upon," said the court.
"It is unfortunate that this Court is being constrained to remark that there are law colleges where you have to just go and pay the fees, the rest is taken care of. It is surprising to state how can a legal profession or how can we as stakeholders of legal education tolerate this kind of situation. It is a great responsibility cast upon the Bar Council of India to shut down such institutions," observed the court.
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