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To Seek Enrolment as an Advocate with Bar Council

Law Graduate Assessment lest (Law-GAT)

The Honorable Supreme Court vide its Order dated March 6, 2018 has directed restoration of the Law Graduate Assessment Test (Law-GAT) by the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) through the Higher Education Commission (HEC). The objective of the Assessment Test is to ensure proper scrutiny and evaluation of a law graduate desirous to join the legal profession so that only competent individuals possessing necessary basic knowledge of law may enter the legal profession for practicing law. Therefore, a law graduate only becomes eligible to apply to a Bar Council for enrolment as an Advocate if he/she qualifies the Assessment Test to be conducted by HEC, Pakistan having been so authorized by PBC, pursuant to the aforementioned Order of the Honorable Supreme Court and read with Section 26 (cc) of Legal Practitioners and Bar Council's Act 1973 and rules of PBC.

Eligibility

Persons having passed Bachelor's degree in Law or equivalent from a university recognized by HEC/PBC are eligible to apply.

Test Type

The test will consist of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)

Syllabus for Law Graduate Assessment Test (LAW-GAT)

Sr.

No.

Title

Sub-Total

of MCQ’s

Total of

MCQ’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.

Constitution

 

  1. Constitutional History of  Pakistan (Cases)
    1. Maulvi Tamiz-ud-Din Khan vs. Governor General of Pakistan (PLD 1955 F.C.240).
    2. The State vs. Dosso and Other (PLD 1958 S.C.533).
    3. Miss Asma Jilani vs Government of Pakistan (PLD 1972 S.C.139).
    4. Begum Nusrat Bhutto vs. Chief of Army Staff. (PLD 1977 S.C657).
    5. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif vs. President ofPakistan. (PLD 1993 S.C.473).
    6. Al-Jehad Trust vs Federation of Pakistan (Judgescase) (PLD 1996 S.C.324).
    7. Zafar Ali Shah and others vs. General Pervez Musharraf, Chief Executive of Pakistan (PLD2000

S.C.869).

  1. Khan Asfandyar Wali and others vs. Federation of Pakistan (PLD 2001 S.C.607).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20

2) Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 (Fundamental Rights, i.e., From Preamble to articles 40; Parliament, i.e., Articles 50- 89; The Judicature, i.e., Articles 175-212).

 

10
  1. InternationalLaw
    1. United NationCharter
    2. International Court ofJustice

 

05

 

 

 

2.

Jurisprudence

 

1) English: (Jurisprudence by Sir John Salmond for LLB Student)

 

05

 

 

 

10

2) Islamic: (Islamic Jurisprudence by Prof Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee)

 

05

 

 

3.

Civil Procedure Code

 

CPC (From Preamble to 12, 15-20, 47, 75, 96, 104, 115, 151.

Orders 1, 6-9, 39, 41, 43).

 

 

20

 

 

20

 

4.

Criminal Law

 

1) P.P.C.

 

10

 

20

 

 
  1. Chapter 2 (GeneralExplanations/Definitions).
  2. Chapter 4 (GeneralException)
  3. Chapter 16 (Offences Affecting the HumanBody).
  4. Chapter 16-A (Wrongful restraint &Wrongful Confinement).
  5. Chapter 17 (Offences againstProperty).

 

 
  1. Cr. P.C.
    1. Chapter 1 (PreliminaryDefinitions).
    2. Chapter 5 (Arrest, Escape andRetaking).
    3. Chapter 7 (Processes to compel the production of documents & other moveable property and for the discovery of persons wrongfullyconfined).
    4. Chapter 8 (Security for keeping the peace and for goodbehavior).
    5. Chapter 10 (PublicNuisance)
    6. Chapter 11 (Temporary orders in urgent cases of nuisance and apprehended danger).
    7. Chapter 14 (Information to the police and their powers toinvestigate-FIR).
    8. Chapter 16 (Complaints tomagistrate).
    9. Chapter 17 (The commencement ofproceedings before court).
    10. Chapter 31 (ofAppeals)
    11. Chapter 39 (ofBail)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

5.

Law of Evidence

 

Qanoon-e-Shahdat Order, 1984

 

20

 

20

6.

Professional Ethics

Canons of Professional conducts and Etiquette of Advocates Ch 12 (Rule 134- 175 B) Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976.

 

 

10

 

 

10

Total

100

100
  • 50 % score is required to pass the Law Graduate Assessment Test (LAW GAT))
  • Applicants will have to meet other criteria, if any, as per rules and regulations of PBC.
  • Applicant will have maximum of five chances to clear the test.HEC will conduct the test on quarterly basis.