BCI extends SBC enrollment validity for all candidates, AIBE Result to be out by April 2023

The Bar Council of India has decided to extend the validity of bar council enrollment, and period from October 2021 to April 2023 to be exempted for all candidates in order to continue their practice at court of law. Read here for more details. 

The General Council of Bar Council of India has provided a resolution for all candidates appearing for AIBE 17 for their state bar council enrollment validity. Now, all the candidates set to appear for AIBE 17, and are worried about discontinuation of legal practice, have been exempted with extension in their enrollment validity. The period from October 2021 to April 2023 will be included in the period of enrollment for all these candidates. 

The resolution shared by the BCI on its official website stated, "

This is bring to your kind knowledge that General Council of the Bar Council of India has passed a resolution with regard to exemption of time period with regard to passing AIBE after Enrolment as an Advocate. The Resolution dated 3012.2022 is given below :-

The Bar Council of India has been receiving requests from many Advocates that owing to the pandemic, they have suffered miserably. Many of them were not even able to take care of basic necessities of their families. If they were able to arrange for fooding they had difficulty in arranging for medication and health care. Many Advocates lost their near and dear ones during the time of pandemic. Inspite of the best efforts of Bar Council of India, State Bar Councils, various Bar Associations and many magnanimous Advocates,  the legal fraternity as a whole suffered a lot due to closure of courts. Thereafter, hogging of virtual hearings by a certain segment of Advocates and also due to the reduction in the paying capacity of clients and reduction in the number of litigations owing to the pandemic, also led to a majority of the legal fraternity from being literally deprived of their right to livelihood.

It also highlighted that earlier too, one year extension was provided to all candidates who enrolled with state bar councils for AIBE 2021 by stating, "The Bar Council of India had earlier vide a resolution dated 29.7.2020 had exempted the period from 24^th March to 31^st March, 2021 from being counted as a necessary time period from the point of view of considering it within the requisite time period of two years from the date of enrolment, to clear the AIBE in order to further continue in practice."

The period to be exempted for AIBE 2022 is, "By way of this instant resolution, dated 30^th December, 2022, it is hereby resolved that the period from the date of the last All India Bar  exam held on 31^st October, 2021 till-April, 2023, by which time, the result of the next AIBE is likely to be declared,  is hereby exempted from being counted as a necessary time period from the point of view of considering it within the requisite time period of two years from the date of enrolment as an Advocate to pass AIBE.

Therefore, the mentioned duration of mentioned dates to be excluded when calculating two years for enrolled candidates, " Thus, it is hereby resolved that this period shall remain exempted and shall not be counted while calculating the two year period from the date of enrolment for the purposes of counting the time period for clearing/passing AIBE.

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