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doubt ; but there are anomalies also in other Departments of Education. To take only two examples, one from the Medical and the other from the Engineering Profession. The University of Bombay has instituted a course of Medical studies on the passing of which a person becomes entitled to the M. B. B. S. Degree. Parallel to it and alongside, there is the L.C.P.S. course conducted by the Government on the completion of which a person becomes entitled to a Diploma. The University of Bombay has prescribed a course of Engineering at the end of which the Degree of B.E. is conferred on the successful candidates. The Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute has also a Course of Engineering at the end of which the student gets a Diploma. Both the person who gets the University Degree as well as the person who gets his Diploma in Medicine or Engineering practise the profession and find employment both under Government and also outside Government. No one complains about this because each class finds a place that is suited to its training. This is exactly what happens in the Legal Profession if one cares to understand the way it functions. The Mykhtyars are confined to Criminal Courts of the lowest order and take up petty cases. The Advocate (A.S.) of the Bar Council who has become an eyesore to many practitioners practise in the Mofussil Courts of Sub-Judges and Sub-Divisional Magistrates in Taluka. It is the Advocate (A.S.) and the Advocate (O.S.) who alone practise in the District Courts and the High Court. Turning our attention to the way in which the profession functions in practice it cannot be said that there is anything very seriously wrong with the system for Legal Education. That the system is complex and asymmetrical is true but mere complexity and absence of symmetry can not be taken to constitute a problem especially when by the law of gravitation so to say each person settles down to the position and the class of work which is but commensurate with his training.
Assuming that there is a problem, it is necessary to make certain distinctions to avoid confusion of the issue. The problem of overcrowding of the Legal Profession must be separated from the problems of legal education. It would be indefensible both from the stand-point of education and also from the stand-point of social justice to frame a scheme of Legal Education on a basis which would make legal profession the preserve of the few. The question