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Under Section 7(1)(h), The Advocates Act, 1961, the BCI is entrusted with the duty “to promote legal education
and to lay down standards of such education in consultation with the Universities in India imparting such education
and the State Bar Councils.”
18
Report of the Working Group on Legal Education, National Knowledge Commission (2007) at para. 3.5.1.
19
Singh, “Revamping professional legal education: Some observations on the LL.B curriculum revised by the Bar
Council of India” in Kaul & Ahuja (eds.), Legal Education in India in 21st Century: Problems and Prospects
(1999).
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