8 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
what sort of Legal Education should be given so as to produce an efficient lawyer is a purely educational question and must be settled by the Educationist without being influenced by what might ultimately happens if the number who took to law as a profession was so great that it exceeded the point of saturation. Another distinction which I think must be made is this : the question of Legal Education has no inherent connection with the question whether the Institutions charged with legal instruction should be whole-time or part-time. It is possible to conceive and to frame a system of legal education tolerably good and easily workable with a Law School or a Law College working part-time.
With these preliminary observation, I address myself to the considerations of the problem of reform of legal education. There are four questions that emerge for consideration :–
At what stage of his education student should be permitted to commence his study of Laws ?
What should be the period for a complete course of legal education ?
What subjects should be curriculum for a complete course of legal education include ?
How should the Law College be organised so that the curriculum prescribed is dealt with in the most efficient manner ?
Question No. 3 seems to me to be pivotal. On a correct answer to this question depends the solution of the remaining three questions. The best approach to the subject is furnished by the reports made from time to time by the Examiners appointed by the Bombay University at the LL.B. Examination containing the impressions formed by them of the work of candidates. The perusal of these reports will show that the examiners have along emphasised the following defects in the work of the examinees.
The absence of any indication of a correct understanding of the fundamental principles underlying the laws which he is required to study.
Absence of any grounding in general knowledge.
Want of orderly presentment of the subject ?
Absence of any sense of relevancy of the answer given to the question asked.
Absence of any sense of precision in stating facts, arguments and opinions.