No Exemption from BCI Exam to Foreign Degree Holder

The Delhi HC ruled that individuals with a foreign law degree cannot claim exemption from the BCI qualifying exam i.e. AIBE, citing the bridge course they have completed. 

It emphasized that the bridge course alone doesn’t fulfil the conditions referred to in the Advocates Act and BCI rules.

The ruling came in a case wherein an individual who had graduated from the University of Buckingham and completed a two-year bridge course at NLU Delhi approached the court claiming exemption from the BCI qualifying exam.

Citing Karan Dhananjaya v. The Bar Council of India the court stated that the observation of this case cannot be extended to an impugned case as it pertains to an entirely different regulatory framework.