The Bar Council of India (BCI) has directed universities to physically inspect all affiliated and constituent law colleges within six weeks before granting or renewing affiliation. It has ordered an end to illegal weekend, evening and shift-based law courses, barred admissions without valid approval, and warned of strict action against violators.
New Delhi: In a sweeping move aimed at tightening the quality of legal education across the country, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has directed all universities imparting legal education to conduct mandatory physical inspections of every affiliated and constituent law college before granting, renewing or continuing affiliation.
The regulator has also ordered universities to identify and discontinue impermissible weekend, evening, compressed and shift-based law programmes that are being run in violation of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008.
The directions were issued through a communication dated August 4, 2026, addressed to Vice-Chancellors, Registrars, Deans and Heads of Law Faculties across the country.
According to the BCI, the decision follows the Andhra Pradesh High Court's judgment in All Saints Christian Education Society v. State of Andhra Pradesh, which reaffirmed that the minimum standards prescribed under the Rules of Legal Education are mandatory and must be enforced by universities. The decision was taken by the Standing Committee on Legal Education under the chairmanship of former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajendra Menon.
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