Bar Council of India bars internship for Law Students

By Vijay Kumar

THE Bar Council of India has written to the Registrars of all Universities imparting Law Education and the Principals of all Law colleges directing that henceforth universities/colleges should send their students for internship to the Law firms and Senior Advocates only during vacations.

This is obviously to meet the problem of attendance in our Law colleges. Many students of reputed Law Colleges work as interns and absent from classes. Empty classroom is a regular feature for many a law teacher. The Bar Council is concerned with the quality of Law Education at the undergraduate level.

But there are any number of Law Colleges with no classrooms, no faculty and no requirement of attendance. And they produce hundreds of lawyers every year.

And in the letter from the Bar Council, Principal is spelt as Principle! The letter is addressed to the Principles of all the law colleges. Hope the Bar Council reaches them.