The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

77students who will go to the Bar or the Bench later. Utmost care must to betaken by the Bar Council of India at the threshold itself.8.2 If care is not taken while granting permission, there are bound to betoo many and unending inspections which result in uncertainty for thestudents and staff, apart from avoidable expenditure for the law schools, letalone the expense of frequent inspections both at the stage of initialestablishment and also later.In India, we do require a good number of law schools but they mustproduce students who have received legal education of sufficient quality.No doubt, several permissions granted to a large number of schools hadbeen withdrawn in the last ten years. Why did it happen? Such closurescaused lot of suffering and inconvenience to the students who joined thoseColleges. Several of these students had to be absorbed in other colleges.Obviously, the initial inspections were not satisfactory.8.3.1 The power of the Bar Council of India to grant permission foraffiliation and withdrawal of permission for affiliation is contained in theRules made by the Bar Council of India. The Rules, in our view, arecertainly intra-vires of the Act. But the Commission felt that there shouldbe a substantive provision in the Act on this aspect of the power of the BarCouncil of India in regard to grant of prior permission to start law coursewhich lead to an enrolment as an advocate and withdrawal of suchpermission. The Bar Council of India should exercise this power ofgranting permission and withdrawal of such permission in consultationwith the Bar Council Legal Education Committee. It is proposed to put this