The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

112“It is true that these suggestions of the High-Powered Committeeclearly highlighted the crying need for improving the standards oflegal education and the requirements for new entrants to the legalprofession of being equipped with adequate professional skill andexpertise. There also cannot be any dispute on this aspect. However,as the saying goes “a right thing must be done in the right manner”.We appreciate the laudable object with which the Bar Council ofIndia has framed the impugned Rules for providing training to theyoung entrants to the profession by laying down details as to howthey should get appropriate training during their formative years atthe Bar. Unfortunately for the Bar Council of India, that right thinghas not been done in the right manner. We equally share the anxietyof the Bar Council of India for evolving suitable methods forimproving the standards of legal education and legal profession. Theaforesaid recommendations made by the High-Powered Committeecould have been put into practice by following appropriate methodsand adopting appropriate modalities by the Bar Council of India.”12.8 The Supreme Court further observed that the need to introducetraining is a matter which cannot be left to the decision of the State BarCouncils. In as much as an enrolled lawyer can practice anywhere in India,this power of prescribing training and examination must be entrusted to theBar Council of India so that the training could be uniform. The Supremecourt observed: (p. 212-213)“It is easy to visualize that appropriate amendments in sections 7 and24(1) would have clothed the Bar Council of India with appropriate