Add more subjects to LLB courses: Delhi HC to BCI

Delhi High Court has asked the BCI to reconsider the present structure of offering 3 years and 5 years LLB programmes.

Delhi High Court has recommended the Bar Council of India (BCI) to revisit its present structure of offering 3 years and 5 years LLB programmes and consider combining other subjects like biology, physics, and chemistry with the existing LLB courses to prevent the course from being outdated.

Justice Prathiba M Singh said, "You could consider giving combination courses like biology with law, physics or chemistry with law. Those courses are not there in India. How will you have people who will be well qualified to deal with challenging issues which courts are facing now," as reported by Live Law.

The court said that it is important that law courses including 3 years and 5 years LLB programmes are combined with other subjects so that people with more diverse backgrounds can be legal professionals.

"You sit in the IP division. You need a lawyer who's an engineer. You need a lawyer who's a physicist. You need a lawyer who's an economist. How will you create these professions, if you keep that very standard or five-year course or three-year course in play?," added Justice Prathiba.

“You need people who are chartered accountants … to [become] lawyers. You need people [with] physics honours, chemistry honours, biotech honours, to be lawyers. So all those people who may be having MSC degrees or BSC degrees, you can’t say you cannot work anywhere and you will pursue law full time,” said the court.

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