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BCI Extends Social-Media Code to Law Students and Interns

The move seeks to protect client confidentiality, preserve court dignity, require written undertakings, mandate digital ethics training, enforce workplace protocols.

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The Bar Council of India has made social media ethics undertakings mandatory for law students, interns and newly enrolled advocates, while restricting court reels, deepfakes and promotional content inside court premises.

Overview

  • The Bar Council of India has issued a binding circular that applies its social-media rules to law students and interns and bars posts that record or depict court proceedings, chambers, client conferences or other confidential internship work.
  • Every student must sign a separate written undertaking before each internship and institutions must keep a register of those undertakings as part of the student record.
  • Centres of Legal Education and law colleges must add a compulsory module on digital ethics, court decorum and professional responsibility and run sensitisation programmes for students and internship coordinators.
  • The circular specifically bans AI-generated images, deepfakes, voice clones and other synthetic media that depict judges, advocates, parties or proceedings and asks firms and chambers to frame internal protocols to prevent unauthorised sharing.
  • Violations can lead to withdrawal of internship offers, reporting to Centres of Legal Education or State Bar Councils and other disciplinary action, and the BCI grounds the rules in statutory confidentiality protections and a recent Supreme Court judgment.