Supreme Court Grants Relief To Disabled Candidates For AIBE; Express Surprise At NLU Consortium Having No Policy For CLAT

After the Supreme Court last week allowed a 100 percent blind law student to avail the assistance of a scribe, as appointed by the Consortium of the National Law Universities, to appear for the Common Law Entrance Test - Postgraduate exam 2024-25, the Court today granted relief to the other two petitioners seeking the use of computers to write answers and soft copies of Bare Acts for. After the Supreme Court last week allowed a 100 percent blind law student to avail the assistance of a scribe, as appointed by the Consortium of the National Law Universities, to appear for the Common Law Entrance Test - Postgraduate exam 2024-25, the Court today granted relief to the other two petitioners seeking the use of computers to write answers and soft copies of Bare Acts for the upcoming the All India Bar Examination. 2 is a 100 percent blind law student at Government Law School, Mumbai, who requested that the CLAT conducting body allow the use of computer and clarify the scribe eligibility criteria for students with visual disabilities. 3 is a 100 percent blind law graduate from Auro University, Surat, who has similarly been requesting for access to soft copies of Bare Acts and the use of a computer for the AIBE-XIX exam.