PULC(Punjab University Law College)

About Us

School is one of the Constituent Colleges of the University of the Punjab, committed to the Promotion of sound and illuminated investigation of Law.

The Law Classes are more advanced in years than the University to which they are subsidiary. Began by the Anjuman-i-Punjab in 1868, they were assumed control by the Punjab University Law College in 1870. The courses of study reached out over two years, and guidelines were given in two differentiate Classes, one in English and the other in the Vernacular. No test was set down for concessions; and there were no examinations, as endorsements honored by the College controlled little esteem. The Punjab Chief Court held its examinations for Pleader boat and confirmation to the Bar.

In 1873 tenets were confined by the senate of the Punjab University obliging the death of Entrance Examination of some University or of the Punjab University College as a state of affirmation to the Law Classes. The accompanying year the Judges of the Chief Court surrendered to the Punjab University College the benefit for holding the Pleader ship Examination. It was set out that, with the exemption of uncommon cases permitted by the Chief Court, nobody might be conceded to the law Examination to the Law Examination without having comparable. The courses of study, as in the recent past, reached out over two years. Triumph in the First Examination qualified the hopefuls for Mukhtarship, and victory in the Second Examination qualified him for Pleader boat of the subordinate Courts. Pleaders of five years' standing could be conceded to the Chief Court Bar.

In 1885 the arrangement of two twelve-month examinations in the same subjects however the higher standard in the second year, was reinstated by an arrangement of three dynamic examinations regarded as the Preliminary in Law, the First Certificate in law, and the Licentiate in Law. From 1885 to 1906 the courses of study reached out over three years.

In 1887 the death of the Intermediate Examination of the University was made a condition for affirmation to the Law Classes. For the Licentiate in Law Examination a competitor was obliged to be a graduate. An alternate regulation gave that to show up in the examination, a hopeful must have went to three-fourth of the addresses conveyed to his class.

In 1890, the Government of the India gave the University the ability to present the level of Ll.b. furthermore Ll.d. The Law Faculty chose in 1891 that the Ll.b. Examination ought to be dissimilar from that of the Licentiate in Law, and that it ought to be held in English just. From 1892 five examinations were held, viz the Preliminary, the First Certificate, the Intermediate, the Licentiate in Law and Ll.b. To show up in the Ll.b. Examination, the hopeful or the Licentiate in Law Examination. Nobody could be qualified for the Intermediate Examination in Law without having passed the Preliminary Examination. Passing of the Intermediate Examination in Law completed not qualifies an individual for legitimate practice. The courses of study stretched out over three years. The applicants were, nonetheless, allowed to seek after Law and Arts concentrates on synchronously. As a consequence of a meeting between a Sub-Committee of the Law workforce, and the Judges of the Chief Courts, the Licentiate in Law examination was nullified in 1906, and the term of the courses of study for the Ll.b. examination was lessened to two years. Mukhtarship (Vermicular Class) was annulled in 1913.