"It is better to produce less number of well trained law degree holders than to produce a large number of ill-trained or untrained law degree holders" Observed Honourable Mr. Justice J. Chelameswar while speaking for the Bench in C.M.Balaraman v. Registrar, Osmania University, Hyderabad and others [AIR 1998 Andhra Pradesh 105]. The present writ petition has been filed by the law students complaining of appalling standards in imparting training in the College despite the prescriptions of the Bar Council of India.

2. The petitioners are the students of the five years LLB Course and three years LLB Course of the Government Law College, Ernakulam functioning under the Mahatma Gandhi University. Their common complaint is that the Semester examinations of the University are often scheduled without being preceded by sufficient number of teaching hours. It is asserted that there was only 128 hours of study in the X Semester of the five years Course and 135 hours of study in the VI Semester of the three years Course. The petitioners rely on Ext.P2 attendance register of the College to drive home the point that Semester examination sans study hours is totally unjustified.

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