Common Judgment

(Judgment of the Court was delivered by S.M.Subramaniam J.)

Under assail is the common order dated 17.12.2025 passed in W.P.Nos. 42641, 46137 and 43650 of 2025.

2. The present intra-court appeals have been instituted jointly by the Registrar, Tamil Nadu Dr.Ambedkar Law University and Dean, School of Excellence in Law (SOEL) under Clause 15 of the Letters patent. Appellants are the respondents in the writ petitions.

3. The common facts in all the writ appeals stem from an issue of attendance shortage of respondent students. The respondent students have insufficient attendance and have not fulfilled the mandatory minimum attendance percentage. Rule 12 of the Bar Council of India Rules mandates minimum attendance requirement, failing which the student concerned shall not be allowed to take the end semester test. Hence, writ petitions were filed by the respondent students with prayers, which include permission to take up their semester exams and reconsideration of decision to re-do the said academic year. The learned Single Judge through common order dated

17.12.2025 had partly allowed the writ petitions with the following directions:

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40. In view thereof, these Writ Petitio