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BCI plans compulsory 10-day training for all lawyers at Goa academy
The Bar Council of India (BCI) plans to set up a National Legal Academy at its IIULER campus in Goa and make 10-day to two-week training compulsory for all lawyers. BCI Chairman…
The Story in Brief
The Bar Council of India (BCI) plans to set up a National Legal Academy at its IIULER campus in Goa and make 10-day to two-week training compulsory for all lawyers. BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra announced this on August 9 at the orientation day for IIULER's Batch of 2026. The proposal follows a Supreme Court directive last month, authored by Justice PS Narasimha, who is also IIULER Chancellor.
The Court had ordered the BCI to create the Academy for lifelong post-enrolment legal education, stronger ethics, and adaptation to technology. Mishra said that young lawyers from across the country will come to Goa for the training. A meeting on August 8 with Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant decided to finish IIULER's 50-acre main campus within two years.
The Indian Opinion
Compulsory training sounds good on paper, but lawyers are expected to pay for it themselves and may lose income for two weeks. The real test will be whether the Bar Council funds the course, pays stipends, or simply passes the cost to practitioners. Also, will senior advocates with decades of experience also be forced to sit through a 10-day class? Nobody is asking that yet.
Source: barandbench.com
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