Abstract
Societies survive on the support of a fundamental pillar called justice
and Legal Education is one of the foremost factors which can bring
about justice and fair play in the social lives of people. Considering its
influence, the significance of legal education can never be denied,
especially in this digital age. When the world is transforming its legal
education into smarter law schools and digital casebooks, Legal
education acts as an instrument for economic development and speedy,
expeditious and inexpensive justice. Lawyers play important role in the
development of economy along with the reputation of their country.
Due to lack of specialized pool of legal experts, Pakistan has lost two
important arbitration cases namely Karkey and Reqo Diq. And as a
result, Pakistan is asked to pay 900 million dollars as a compensation
to local and international firms. It is the urgent need of time to build
productive legal institutions along with professional legal experts. The
reason of it is that due to lack of legal experts Pakistan has to hire
foreign firms at exorbitant costs for international arbitration. 394 for
instance in Karkey case Pakistan is estimated to have paid almost 1.5
billion rupees to foreign law firm. Therefore, the legal education
system must be updated to cope with the present challenges of
globalization. In the recent past Pakistan bar Council imposed
restrictions as to admissions in Law Colleges thus restricting people
from access to legal education. The purpose behind these rules was to
produce quality legal practitioners but no steps in connection with
improvement as to quality were taken. Neither any special practice
courses nor any skill development programs were introduced at bar.
However, restriction of age and modification in duration of the Law
degrees was predicted to be a measure towards improving the
“quality” of legal education which unfortunately turned out to be a
chaos. This paper, inter-alia, covers a critical analysis of “Pakistan
Bar Council Rules 2015” as well as the procedural defects in power
exercising committed by “Pakistan Bar Council”, also examines the practical challenges in the domain of legal education with respect to
economic development in Pakistan
Naeem Ullah Khan. (2017) LEGAL EDUCATION AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN: PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES, Pakistan , Volume 53, Issue 1.
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