The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

1264) Clause (b) of subsection (2) of sec. 10 has to be amended to providefor membership of Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India,representing different classes of person. The Committee shall comprise of5 members from the Bar Council of India, one retired Judge of the SupremeCourt of India, one retired Chief Justice/Judge of a High Court both to benominated by the Chief Justice of India and three academicians in law to benominated by the University Grants Commission and these three should bemembers of the proposed UGC Committee on Legal Education and allthree of them must be in office and one of them must be Director/Vice-Chancellor of a statutory Law University. The retired Judge of theSupreme Court shall be the Chairman of the Committee.(para 3.12(2))5) The Attorney General for India can, at his option, participate in themeetings of the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of Indiaand the Chairman of that Committee shall be entitled to request theAttorney General to participate in the proceedings of the Committee andwhen he so participates, he is entitled to vote.(para 3.13 (3))6) The Bar Council Legal Education Committee shall decide all mattersin its meeting by majority of votes of the members present and voting, andin the event of equality of votes, the Chairman shall have an exercise acasting vote.(para 3.13 (4))