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17 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.

18Report 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


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