The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

434.10 As to the co-ordination between the Bar Council of India and thefaculty, it is advantageous to refer to the 14 th Report of the LawCommission in regard to ‘Consultation process and the minimumstandards’ to be prescribed by the Bar Council of India. As to the meaningof ‘standards’, we shall dealt with this aspect in Chapter V.4.11 The 14 th Report of the Law Commission (1958) presided over byShri M.C. Setalvad dealt with the above aspects in extenso. It isworthwhile to refer to that Report. It stated (p. 546, para 54) as follows:“We have already seen how in England, professional legal educationand the admission to the profession are controlled by a bodyconsisting exclusively of professional men. There is no reason whya similar control and regulation should not be vested in theprofession in India. Co-ordination between the bodiesregulating professional training and the Universities with a view toensuring minimal standards can be achieved in the mannerindicated above. In our view the Legal Education Committee ofthe All India Bar Council may be empowered to keep itself intouch with the standards of legal education imparted at the variousUniversities by visits and inspection as in the case of themedical and dental professions or as is done by the American BarAssociation in the case of the American Law Schools. If the Councilor its Committee is of the view that the standards prescribed by aparticular University in legal education are not adequate or thatinstitutions established by it or affiliated to it for imparting legaleducation are not well-equipped or properly run, it may decide to