Call to improve legal education

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsA call to improve the standard of legal education was given at the ‘Southern State Bar Councillors’ Meet-2012’, organized by the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the city on Saturday.Speaker after speaker stressed the need to improve the quality of legal education and to streamline, strengthen and purify the legal profession. Inaugurating the two-day meeting, senior Supreme Court judge P Sathasivam said legal education and training is an on-going process. Law is one branch of learning that has never stagnated. No one can claim to be perfect in legal knowledge. ‘‘Indeed, we all, whether judges on the Bench or lawyers in the Bar, strive to achieve perfection. But in the fast changing socio-economic norms, development in law has been fast paced. One needs to keep oneself abreast with the latest in law unless one is resigned to be outdated.’’ Several new avenues have opened up for legal profession. Human rights, environmental law, cyber-law, intellectual property rights, arbitrations are some of the new fields. There is a need for young lawyers to search new fields, he said.Another Supreme Court judge FM Ibrahim Kalifulla said that fake law colleges are mushrooming. It is high time the Bar Council revamped and streamlined the legal education, he added.Madras High Court Chief Justice MY Eqbal said that the judges and the advocates should make all possible attempts to perform their pious obligation of delivering justice. ‘‘They owe not just a legal responsibility, but also a moral and ethical responsibility to ensure that no corrupt hands shall pollute the pure fountain of justice.Justice D Murugesan said that an advocate is considered to be a most articulate professional.Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said the Bar Councils have to be a bit tough in the matters of disciplinary proceedings against erring advocates.first published:August 19, 2012, 08:38 ISTlast updated:August 19, 2012, 08:38 IST
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A call to improve the standard of legal education was given at the ‘Southern State Bar Councillors’ Meet-2012’, organized by the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the city on Saturday.

Speaker after speaker stressed the need to improve the quality of legal education and to streamline, strengthen and purify the legal profession. Inaugurating the two-day meeting, senior Supreme Court judge P Sathasivam said legal education and training is an on-going process. Law is one branch of learning that has never stagnated. No one can claim to be perfect in legal knowledge. ‘‘Indeed, we all, whether judges on the Bench or lawyers in the Bar, strive to achieve perfection. But in the fast changing socio-economic norms, development in law has been fast paced. One needs to keep oneself abreast with the latest in law unless one is resigned to be outdated.’’ Several new avenues have opened up for legal profession. Human rights, environmental law, cyber-law, intellectual property rights, arbitrations are some of the new fields. There is a need for young lawyers to search new fields, he said.

Another Supreme Court judge FM Ibrahim Kalifulla said that fake law colleges are mushrooming. It is high time the Bar Council revamped and streamlined the legal education, he added.

Madras High Court Chief Justice MY Eqbal said that the judges and the advocates should make all possible attempts to perform their pious obligation of delivering justice. ‘‘They owe not just a legal responsibility, but also a moral and ethical responsibility to ensure that no corrupt hands shall pollute the pure fountain of justice.

Justice D Murugesan said that an advocate is considered to be a most articulate professional.

Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said the Bar Councils have to be a bit tough in the matters of disciplinary proceedings against erring advocates.