SRINAGAR, Oct. 15 -- The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has made qualifying the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) mandatory for law graduates enrolled as advocates from the academic year 2009-10 onwards, directing those who have not cleared the examination to do so in accordance with Bar Council of India rules.

In a notification issued on October 10, the High Court said law graduates enrolled with the Bar Council of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh who graduated in 2009-10 or later must qualify the AIBE if they have not already done so.

The notification states that fresh law graduates and provisionally enrolled advocates will be granted an absolute certificate of enrolment only after qualifying the examination and producing the C...