The Bar Council of India on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that the BCI rules to abolish one-year LLM programme will not be implemented this year and will be effective from 2022-2023. The bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian were hearing the petitions filed by the Consortium of National Law Universities and two others challenging the new rules of the BCI which seek to abolish one year LLM Courses in India and order status quo.
BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra submitted before the top court that the decision to do away with one-year LLM courses be brought into force from academic year 2022-2023. The apex court recorded the submission of the BCI Chairman and adjourned the hearing by four weeks.
Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for the Consortium, told the court that this assurance of the Chairman of BCI will remove the concerns of the Universities regarding this year.
Singhvi submitted yesterday that since the Universities have received nearly 5,000 applications for the one-year LLM courses, a status quo order was necessary as the new rules of the BCI to abolish one-year programme will cause immense hardship to students.
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