The Bar Council of India (BCI) has to clarify its stand on the age limit for 5-year law courses in the Supreme Court. Supreme Court has given two weeks time to BCI for this. In fact, a hearing on this was held in the SC on Friday. The SC meanwhile questioned the BCI and said whether it is ready to remove the maximum age limit set for admission to the five-year law course? After hearing the BCI’s reply on this, the SC has fixed the hearing after two weeks. In this hearing, BCI will have to clarify its stand on the matter.
Let us know in detail about the SC hearing and BCI’s side regarding this matter. Let’s find out what the BCI said on Friday, we will also know about it.
Application for Removal of Maximum Age Limit
A petition was filed in the Supreme Court in this regard, wherein the petitioner has questioned whether the power to fix the minimum qualification can be exercised in imposing the maximum age limit. On this, Justice Joymalya Bagchi said that the residential nature of the five-year law course cannot be a basis. While the BCI sought a week’s time to take instructions, the SC has fixed the next hearing after two weeks.
What did BCI say?
The BCI said that we have fixed the maximum age limit as most of the five-year law courses are residential. BCI said the court can fix the age on this. A BCI lawyer said that we also have a three-year law course. In such a situation, if one wants to study law after a certain age, he can do a three-year course. A BCI lawyer said that most three-year law courses are not residential, but five-year law courses are mostly residential.
All 5 year law courses are non-residential
Rejecting BCI’s contentions during the hearing, Justice Joymalya Bagchi said that all five-year law courses are not residential. He gave the example of Calcutta University’s 5-year law course. The court said that this was not a proper criterion for fixing the maximum age limit. On this, BCI said that the court can pass an appropriate order. Now the next hearing of this case will be after two weeks.
