Framing Rules On Allowing Final-year Law Students To Write AIBE: BCI told Supreme Court

Recently, the Bar Council of India (BCI) told the Supreme Court (SC) that it was framing rules on allowing final-year law students to write the AIBE (All India Bar Examination). This was told when the SC bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra was hearing a petition filed by 9 Delhi University final-year law students against the recent notification of the BCI barring them from writing the AIBE before graduation. On Friday (September 13), the bench said that once the rules are framed there will be more clarity in the matter. It said, “Let the Bar Council of India come back to us next week on when rules will be notified in this case.” In this case, the petitioners contended that the BCI’s recent notification, barring final-year law students from writing the AIBE before graduation, is contrary to a Constitution bench judgment which stated that students who are eligible to pursue the final semester of law school could be allowed to take the All India Bar Examination. The petitioners sought quashing of the BCI’s notification along with a direction to be allowed to write the exam so that they do not lose time in pursuing their professional careers. The AIBE exam is scheduled for November 24, 2024.