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Under Schedule II to the Bar Council of India's Rules of Legal Education, 2008, as it stands on 1…

Item 4(b) of Schedule II says that "if eight papers are taken from multiple of groups, honours can be given in general law without mentioning any specialization", and its…

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Under Schedule II to the Bar Council of India's Rules of Legal Education, 2008, as it stands on 1 October 2026, a student in an honours course takes eight papers in the specialised or honours stream. Student A takes two from Constitutional Law, three from Business Law, one from International Law and two from International Trade Law. Student B takes all eight from the Constitutional Law group. How are their honours described?

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Item 4(b) of Schedule II says that "if eight papers are taken from multiple of groups, honours can be given in general law without mentioning any specialization", and its Example applies this to A and B. A spread his papers over four groups, so his honours are in Law generally, while B, who took all eight from one group, has his honours named in Constitutional Law. The group with the most papers does not decide the title; a specialisation is named only when all eight papers come from one group.

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