JUDGMENT

B.V. Nagarathna, J. - Since, these writ petitions raise common questions of law and facts, they have been connected together, heard at length and disposed of by this common order.

2. Writ Petition No.8788 of 2020 has been filed by a student who is a resident of Bengaluru for about eight years and has completed his school education from Florence Public School and MES Kishora Kendra, Bengaluru, while Writ Petition No.8951 of 2020 is a public interest litigation filed by two former students of the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (hereinafter referred to as "respondent/Law School" or "respondent/Law University" for the sake of convenience). Writ Petition No.9145 of 2020 has been filed by the Bar Council of India (hereinafter referred to as "BCI" for the sake of convenience), a statutory body constituted, governed and functioning under the provisions of the Advocates Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as "the 1961 Act" for short), through its Secretary.

3. In all these writ petitions, the petitioners have assailed the vires of the National Law School of India (Amendment) Act, 2020 (Karnataka Act No.13 of 2020) (hereinafter referred to as "the Amendment Act", f