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29Court Judge are now in the Committee as per the above recommendations.There is only one from the academic community. In other words, out often, five are Bar Councillors, two are Judges, one is an academician, andthe Secretary UGC and Secretary, Law are the other members.3.3 However, in the Working Paper prepared by the Law Commission(1999) the membership of a 15-member Committee was suggested asfollows: five from the Bar Council, five from the faculty, and out of theremaining five, two to be from the Judiciary, and the Secretary, UGC andSecretary, Law are to be the third and fourth members and the fifth shouldbe the Director of the National Law School, Bangalore.3.4 The Bar Council of India has strongly opposed the above proposalmade in the Working Paper in as much as the existing ratio of BarCouncillors which is 5/10 becomes 5/15.3.5 On the other hand, the Faculty at its deliberations at the All IndiaLaw Teachers Congress (Jan. 22-25, 1999) was of the view that in aCommittee of ten, there should be more representation to the academiccommunity and that the Ahmadi Committee was wrong in permitting onlyone from the Faculty to be on the Committee. Of course, a furthersuggestion was made that the Faculty alone must be concerned with legaleducation and that the lawyers and Judges have no place there.3.6 Similarly, the 12.8.2002 Conference at Bangalore called the ‘FirstNational Consultation Conference of Heads of Legal EducationalInstitutions’, in its draft recommendations observed (at p. 10)