Academic
Academic Details
Studying at the LCD facilitates all round development of the personality of the students. Value based education is given more importance. The teaching methods adopted for the degree program are such as to promote multi-disciplinary inquiry and practical appreciation of problems. The method of teaching involves lectures, discussions, case studies and moot courts. Many innovative methods are followed by the LCD to attain the standard.
The College is presently imparting 3 years LL.B. Course and on further expansion the College intends to take up other Law Courses with due permission from the authority concerned.
There is a high degree of interaction between the students and the teachers in the classroom and this necessitate that students should come prepared for the classes and actively participate in classroom discussions.
Maximum number of working days possible under Vinoba Bhave University’s calendar of events are adopted and devoted for the course. Students have to attend 75 percent of the lectures on each of the subjects in each term. Sufficient time is provided for extracurricular and curricular activities. The courses of Clinical Legal Education (Practical Training) are taught by integrating classroom teaching with simulation exercises. College takes pride in possessing a good, well furnished and well equipped moot court hall which is put to maximum use. Each and every student shall take part in the moot court. Students are trained to become full fledged advocates at the end of the course for which the help of experts in the field is used. Students are encouraged to research on specific topics and present the same in seminars. Efforts are being made to expose students to the field and court realities. Students are sent to various courts and law offices to observe the proceedings. They also visit prisons, juvenile homes and remand homes to study and to conduct survey and field investigations. These help in improving research skills, analytical abilities as well as the communication skills of the students.
Students are encouraged to go to the field and interact with the common man, through various programmes. LCD and its alumni are sensitive to their social responsibility also. Various programmes are designed to spread legal awareness among the public. Free legal consultation and aid are actively undertaken in cooperation and in coordination with State Agencies. This is particularly useful for the multi-disciplinary analysis of socio-legal problems.
Graduates from LCD follow a variety of career paths. A number of them choose to go into active ‘practice’ i.e. litigation at the courts. The LCD alumni may be found at the Supreme Court and High Courts in the country either in independent practice or working under India’s top lawyers. Others choose to go into Law Firms. Some of the alumni have made their way in to the judiciary also. Some students choose to go into companies as Legal Advisors. A number of graduating students decide to pursue higher studies.
The curriculum of study for the LL.B.(Hons.) Degree shall be spread over three academic years, and shall be divided into six semesters for the examination purposes, called as First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth semesters.
The academic year shall extend from the day of the reopening of University after summer vacation to the last working day of the concerned academic year or as determined by Academic Council. The First, Third and Fifth semesters shall ordinarily extend from the day of re-opening of the University after summer vacation to the last week of December as the case may be. The Second, Fourth and Sixth semesters shall ordinarily extend from the first week of January to the last working day of the concerned academic year / commencement of summer vacation.
Conditions of eligibility for taking admission to LL.B. (Hons.) Part-I
An applicant who has successfully completed Graduation under 10+2+3 or 11+2+2 or any other corresponding degree examination of any University recognized as equivalent thereto by the Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University with at least 45 percent of marks in case of general category applicants and 40 percent marks in case of SC/ST/OBC applicants in the aggregate shall be eligible for admission to LL.B.(Hons.) Sem-I Course. Admission shall be given strictly on merit subject to the conditions stipulated by the Bar Council of India, New Delhi and Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University, Dhanbad.
- The applicants who have undergone graduation through Open Universities system directly without having any basic qualification for seeking such studies are not eligible for admission in the law course.
- The applicants who have undergone Two-Year Degree Course before 19861are eligible to take admission to LL.B.(Hons.) Sem-I Course.
- Open School or Open University students are also eligible for admission to LL.B.(Hons.) Sem-I Course provided they have attended at least one Regular Course.
Prohibition to Register in Other Courses
The candidates admitted to the course, shall not be allowed to pursue any other course except certificate course in any Indian or foreign language or computer application being conducted by this university on part time basis in the evening or through distance learning with prior permission of the Principal otherwise his candidature for LL.B. 3-year (Honours) Course will be cancelled forthwith.
Extract of university regulations relating to promotions in subsequent semesters
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Students who have pursued a regular course of studies for any of the semesters and have appeared at the relevant examinations shall be eligible to be promoted to the next higher semester subject to university regulations.
A student of the First, Third and Fifth semesters will be promoted to Second, Fourth and Sixth semesters respectively irrespective of the number of courses in which he /she has failed to pass or failed to appear in the First, Third and Fifth semesters examinations as the case may be. -
A student shall not be admitted to the Third Semester unless he/she has passed in at least Six compulsory papers of First and Second semesters taken together.
Provided further that no such student shall be admitted to Fifth Semester unless he /she has passed in at least Six papers of Third and Fourth semesters taken together.
Provided further that a student who fails to secure minimum pass marks in any paper / papers of First, Second, Third and Fourth semesters shall be required to appear in the examinations of the concerned back paper/papers of the concerned examination, as the case may be. - Open School or Open University students are also eligible for admission to LL.B.(Hons.) Sem-I Course provided they have attended at least one Regular Course.
Attendance
Every student has to secure a minimum of 75% attendance in each course.
Provided that where a student falls short of 75% attendance but secures more than 70% in a particular course, he/she will be allowed to take the exam in the course provided; he/she has secured more than 75% average attendance in all other courses excluding the course(s) in which he secured less than 70% attendance. There are no marks for attendance in such cases.
No such student of the First semester, who has failed to secure 25% of attendance in that semester, shall be allowed to pursue the LL.B.(Hons.) course of study;
However, a student detained due to shortage of attendance in any semester may be allowed to pursue the course of study of that semester within five years from the academic session of his admission in the Law Faculty for the first session or as prescribed by the University from time to time.
Grace Rules
Ranking to the Candidates
Ranking shall be given to only those candidates who pass all the courses of the programme in one attempt.
Notwithstanding any provision in the ordinances to the contrary, the following category of examinee is also eligible for ranking.
Any student, having been duly admitted to a regular examination of the course, was unable to take that examination in full or in part due to some cogent reasons, and took the next following examination of that course and passed the course.
The marks obtained by such student at the examination shall be considered as the basis for the University Ranking, Scholarships and other distinctions.
In order to get the benefit of this provision, such student should claim that he/she is eligible for this benefit and get a decision in writing after proving eligibility.
Break in the Course
Any student taking admission to LL.B. (Hons.) degree programme of the Faculty shall not be allowed to pursue any other full time programme/course in the Faculty or elsewhere in the entire period of the programme meaning thereby that if a student leaves the programme after passing some of the semesters/courses and takes up a full-time programme/course elsewhere, then he/she shall not be allowed to continue the programme further in the Faculty.
INTERNSHIP
Students of third semester onwards are eligible to pursue internship in local Bar for a period not exceeding two weeks at a time in any semester. No student shall be allowed to pursue internship during the continuance of academic session. As per BCI Regulation BCI:D:1478/2014(LE) internship can be taken only during vacation in College or universities.
Defination
- A ‘Regular Student’ is one who has pursued a regular course of study and obtained prescribed attendance mentioned in the ordinances and is eligible to appear in the examination.
- ‘Ex-student’ means one who has studied in the Faculty for at least one semester preceding the date of the examination and has filled up the examination form but failed or has failed to appear in the examination, though otherwise eligible.