Overview
- Until the Bar Council of India completes consultations, no law student across India can be stopped from taking examinations or advancing academically for falling short of minimum attendance.
- No college or university may impose attendance requirements stricter than the minimum set by the Bar Council of India.
- Law colleges must immediately post weekly attendance on an online portal or app, send monthly shortage notices to parents or guardians, and conduct extra physical or online classes for deficient students.
- The High Court disposed of the long‑running suo motu case that began in the Supreme Court in 2016 and was transferred to Delhi High Court in 2017.
- Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Amit Sharma underscored that overly rigid attendance enforcement can cause severe mental trauma.