India, Our Brother of Legal Standards

With so much of our legal work in this country going overseas to India, we should expect the Indian legal field to live up to our American ideals of law and justice, right?

Currently, there's a dispute in India between graduating law students and the All-India Bar Exam, which just got postponed to the students' collective anguish. Could you imagine American law students taking this position?

We will be going to courts and starting our practise. If we are wrong let us face contempt...We have a right to practice. The only thing that is required to practice in courts is the enrolment certificate issued by the State Bar Councils, which has already been given to us. Already there are a large number of students who are appearing in the Delhi High Court without writing the AIBE and if the BCI were to do a check they would be astonished at the number of graduates who are practicing without having written the exam.

BCI is the Bar Council of India. So what you have here is a bunch of students telling the Indian equivalent of the ABA (which in India is a government body) to go piss off.

Good or bad, these are the people - this is the legal system - that our own legal system has become inextricably intertwined with by farming out legal labor. They don't require bar passage and have the stones/sense of entitlement/lack of respect for process to face contempt rather than waiting a short amount of time for a test.

Make of it what you will. I find it interesting.