Chief Justice of India, Justice T.S. Thakur has severely censured the Law Colleges in the country for their poor performance, shabby infrastructure and other serious discrepancies. He has exhorted the Bar Council of India (BCI), the apex body of lawyers, to crack the whip on law colleges which lack appropriate infrastructure by shutting them down. There are law colleges where you may not have faculty, no library or where attendance will not be marked. There are law colleges where you have to just go and pay the fees; the rest is taken care off. Speaking at a felicitation ceremony at Bar Council of India, the Chief Justice regretted that the standard of legal education in the law colleges had deteriorated and this was a matter of shame. He was of the opinion that only the cream of society should get into the legal profession because they owed tremendous social responsibility of administering justice. The Chief Justice is very right in asking the Bar Council of India not to tolerate the law colleges as were a blot on the name of legal education.
We are all aware that there are so-called legal practitioners who are a disgrace for the entire legal community in the country and need to be identified and weeded out. This is a challenge before the Bar Council of India and a mechanism has to be evolved that deals with the situation.
The Chief Justice has opened a debate on a very important and sensitive issue of only cream of the society coming to the legal profession. This debate should percolate down to all levels of intellectual segment of society and a consensus of opinion has to be built in regard to improving the quality of legal education.
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