{"id":396463,"date":"2026-09-17T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=396463"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:00:24","slug":"advocate-enrolment-despite-distance-mode-degree-sc-provisional-enrolment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/09\/17\/advocate-enrolment-despite-distance-mode-degree-sc-provisional-enrolment\/","title":{"rendered":"Can candidates with prior open\/distance mode degrees enrol as advocates after regular mode LLB? 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The Court further clarified that,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%; margin-left: 36pt;\">&#8220;the provisional enrolment granted pursuant to this order shall not create any equity in favour of the persons concerned and shall abide by the final decision in the respective civil appeals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Background<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The present matters concern the eligibility for enrolment as an advocate of candidates who have obtained one or more of their preceding educational qualifications through open, distance or correspondence mode, but have subsequently completed a 3-year LLB course through regular mode from universities recognised by the Bar Council of India (BCI). The controversy arises from the interpretation and application of Rule 5, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rules of Legal Education, 2008<\/span>, and whether the mode through which an earlier educational qualification was obtained can affect eligibility for enrolment despite completion of a regular LLB degree from a recognised university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The candidates concerned had completed their earlier school or undergraduate education through open or distance mode and thereafter pursued a 3-year regular LLB course. Their applications for enrolment were not processed on the ground that the preceding educational qualifications had not been obtained through regular mode. In one of the matters, the candidate had completed Intermediate and a BCom degree through distance mode before obtaining a regular LLB degree, and the challenge to the denial of enrolment had also been rejected by the Telangana High Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court was considering the requests for provisional enrolment pending the final adjudication of the appeals. The Court did not examine or decide the interpretation of Rule 5 at this stage, leaving that question for the final hearing. The immediate issue before the Court was whether candidates who had undisputedly completed a 3-year regular LLB course from recognised universities should continue to be denied enrolment during the pendency of the proceedings solely because of the mode in which their earlier educational qualifications had been obtained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Court&#8217;s Consideration<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court expressly declined to enter into the merits of the controversy concerning the interpretation of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rule 5<\/span>, stating that the issue would be considered at the final hearing of the respective civil appeals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court noted that the applicants-appellants had completed their respective <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3-year LLB courses through the regular mode from recognised universities<\/span>. The impediment to their enrolment arose from the mode in which the educational qualifications obtained before the LLB had been acquired. The Court noted that this was the very issue pending consideration in the appeals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Provisional Enrolment Allowed<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court was of the view that continued denial of enrolment during the pendency of the appeals would cause avoidable prejudice to the persons concerned and prevent them from entering the legal profession despite completion of their regular law degrees. The Court considered that their interests could be protected by granting <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">provisional enrolment<\/span>, expressly subject to the final outcome of the respective civil appeals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court clarified that such <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">provisional enrolment would<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not create any equity in favour of the persons concerned<\/span> and would remain subject to verification of their educational and other requisite documents and fulfilment of the other applicable requirements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Accordingly, the Court directed the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Telangana State Bar Council<\/span> to provisionally enrol the applicants and the appellant as advocates, subject to the stated conditions and the final outcome of the respective appeals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court disposed of the interlocutory applications in those terms, while directing that the civil appeals be listed for hearing in due course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Also Read:<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/11\/15\/bci-rules-on-foreign-lawyers-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">BCI Rules on Foreign Nationals practicing in India Explained | SCC Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">STS Gladies<\/span> v. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">BCI<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/xHo1h03P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 SCC OnLine SC 1921<\/a>, decided on 9-9-2026<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the appellants:<\/span> Petitioner-in-person, AOR Vinod Sharma, Gaurav Kumar, Agrim Tandon, Naman Shrestha, Vishal Tiwari, Priyanka S. Aneja, Mukesh Kumar Thakur, Advocates<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the respondents:<\/span> AOR Radhika Gautam, AOR B. Shravanth Shanker, Grahita Agarwal, Prerna Robin, Shivam Kunal, I.V. Sai Nikhil, Dandu Laxman, B. Yeshwanth Raj, Shreyas Jayasimha, Senior Advocate A. Mariarputham, AOR Ram Sankar &amp; Co., AOR Parmanand Gaur, Dr Ram Sankar, Megha Gaur, Vibhav Mishra, Advocates<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The question before the Court was whether candidates who had obtained their preceding degrees through open or correspondence mode but subsequently completed a 3-year regular LLB from recognised universities, could be provisionally enrolled as advocates pending final adjudication on Rule 5, Rules of Legal Education, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67547,"featured_media":396466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[97366,114946,12381,2849,114950,46100,58394,37369,12391,114949,114952,114947,114951,114948,80645,43181,5363],"class_list":["post-396463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-supremecourt","tag-advocate-enrolment","tag-advocate-enrolment-eligibility","tag-bar-council-of-india","tag-BCI","tag-correspondence-education","tag-distance-education","tag-enrolment-as-advocate","tag-law-graduates","tag-legal-education","tag-open-distance-education","tag-preceding-educational-qualification","tag-provisional-enrolment","tag-regular-ll-b","tag-rule-5-legal-education-rules","tag-rules-of-legal-education-2008","tag-state-bar-council","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC on advocate enrolment despite distance mode degree | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court allows advocate enrolment despite a distance-mode prior degree, provisionally enrolling regular LL.B. holders pending the final Rule 5 ruling.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/09\/17\/advocate-enrolment-despite-distance-mode-degree-sc-provisional-enrolment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can candidates with prior open\/distance mode degrees enrol as advocates after regular mode LLB? 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