I felt like a nobody with a private university law degree, struggling to take pride in how I had enrolled myself in a weekend master’s program at Dhaka University. Thus, whereas the increasing interest of well-schooled students in pursuing law practice is good news, the council’s way of screening the most worthy candidates in the first phase (through the preliminary MCQ) certainly calls for debate. And if a law graduate is expected to appear for the bar exam in his/her late 20s, let alone the majority who would have to move to other professions, it looks as though they must ensure monetary security from their families already. The council during the Covid-19 crisisExcuses might be in abundance on the part of the council to justify the delay of exams each – time, blacklisted law schools, universities graduating more law students than the prescribed number, etc. Saquib Rahman is a lecturer of Labour and Employment Law at North South University, and an Advocate of the Dhaka Court.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 15, 2020 19:18 UTC