The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

95malpractices. We are only referring to those colleges where malpracticesdo persist or are encouraged by some managements. Apart fromprevention of malpractices, the problem-method will make the student tothink and come forward with a practical solution. This is not possibleunless the student is thorough with the subject. The problem method willbe able to eliminate malpractices.9.14 In our view, so far as this part of the paper containing the problemsis concerned, the students can even be allowed to have the bare Acts toenable them to read the sections clearly and think of an answer. Of course,this may not apply to some subjects like the Law of Torts where severallegal principles are based on case law and not statutes.9.15 The second advantage of the problem method is that students willhave to necessarily attend all classes and cannot hope to remain absent, ifthey have to face such a system of examination.The third advantage is that students have to apply their mindindependently.Thus the problem method has several advantages – (i) it precludesmalpractices; (ii) it makes the students think and study the statutes closelyand (iii) absenteeism in classes will get automatically controlled.The introduction of ‘problem method’ requires generation of a hugedata Bank of problems in various subjects.In the matter of prescribing topics for the law course, theCommission considers that clinical legal education may be mademandatory subject. This course features as part of the law curriculum in all