Enrolment as an advocate with a foreign degree
For: Bangladeshi citizens with a law degree from abroad.
- Obtain an equivalency certificate for your foreign law degree. The Bar Council, the Ministry of Education or the University Grants Commission is the issuing authority, depending on the source.
- Complete a pupillage under a senior advocate (about six months) on the Bar Council's form.
- Pass the Bar Council's enrolment examination, which has a multiple-choice stage, a written stage and a viva voce, and be enrolled on the roll of advocates.
Under the Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Order 1972, the criteria include Bangladeshi citizenship, a minimum age of 21 and a law degree. We could not confirm the current text of the foreign-degree rules.
