ISLAMABAD:Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar has said steps are being taken to bring
Addressing participants at a ceremony at the Supreme Court building on Thursday to launch the annual report of the Pakistan Bar Council’s Legal Education Directorate, he said numerous issues concerning law colleges had emerged over the past 15 years, but the Legal Education Committee had remained in capable hands.
Due to the problem of “ghost admissions” in the LLB programme, evening courses were abolished, while the Law-GAT examination was introduced in the country. He further said that, keeping international standards in view, the duration of the LLB programme had been reduced from five years to four years. He said that in 2022-23, an important decision was taken requiring all law colleges to share their students’ data with the Pakistan Bar Council. Degrees of students from colleges that failed to provide the required data would not be registered.
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council, Munir Malik, said that the Legal Education Directorate had been established pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court, under which the LLB programme was also reduced to four years. He said that the Pakistan Bar Council had held a meeting with officials of the Higher Education Commission regarding improving the quality of legal education, and further measures would continue to be taken in this regard.
