The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

33In case, during the tenure of the Bar Council of India’s Legal EducationCommittee, any vacancy occurs in these three faculty positions either byretirement or otherwise, the UGC will have to nominate fresh facultymembers who are in office, in replacement. They must be of the rank ofLaw Professors/Principals of Law College/Vice-Chancellors/Directors ofLaw Universities, as stated in Ch. IV.3.10 The retired Judge of the Supreme Court on the Committee should, inour view, be the Chairman of the Legal Education Committee in the samemanner as at present, and shall have a casting vote.3.11 We would also like to recommend a separate provision enabling theAttorney General for India to participate in the meetings of the LegalEducation Committee whether on his own or on invitation by the Chairmanof the Committee, and he may, if necessary, vote on any resolution.3.12 We, therefore, recommend that the Legal Education Committee ofthe Bar Council of India will thus be a committee representing the Bar, theBench and the Faculty, as visualized by the Report of the All India BarCommittee, 1953, referred to in the 14 th Report of the Law Commission ofIndia, headed by Shri M.C. Setalvad and will have five from the BarCouncil of India, three from the faculty, a retired Judge of the SupremeCourt and a retired Chief Justice/Judge of the High Court. The Attorney-General for India can participate on his own or on invitation and he may, ifnecessary, vote on any resolution.The above proposals will be made in the proposed section 10AA.