Under the Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976 a law graduate desirous of seeking enrolment as an Advocate to practice law, is required to pass an Assessment Test, for being eligible to apply to a Bar Council for that purpose.
The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has, therefore, assigned Higher Education Commission (HEC), Education Testing Council (ETC) the responsibility to conduct Law Graduate Assessment Test (LAW-GAT).
Eligibility Criteria:
Persons having passed LL.B (final year) examination from a University recognized by Pakistan Bar Council, with minimum Seventeen years Education, are eligible to apply for (LAW-GAT).
Syllabus:
Constitution
1) Constitutional History of Pakistan (Cases), 5 Marks
i. Maulvi Tamiz-ud-Din Khan vs. Governor General of Pakistan (PLD 1955 F.C. 240).
ii. The State vs. Dosso and Other (PLD 1958 S.C. 533).
iii. Miss Asma Jilani vs Government of Pakistan (PLD 1972 S.C. 139).
iv. Begum Nusrat Bhutto vs. Chief of Army Staff. (PLD 1977 S.C 657).
v. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif vs. President of Pakistan. (PLD 1993 S.C. 473).
vi. Al-Jehad Trust vs Federation of Pakistan (Judges case) (PLD 1996 S.C. 324).
vii. Zafar Ali Shah and others vs. General Pervez Musharraf, Chief Executive of Pakistan (PLD 2000 S.C. 869).
viii. Khan Asfandyar Wali and others vs. Federation of Pakistan (PLD 2001 S.C. 607).
2) Constitution of Pakistan, 1973, 10 Marks
(Fundamental Rights, i.e., From Preamble to articles 40; Parliament, i.e., Articles 50- 89; The Judicature, i.e., Articles 175-212).
3) International Law 5 Marks
i. United Nation Charter
ii. International Court of Justice
Jurisprudence: 10 Marks
1) English: (Jurisprudence by Sir John Salmond for LLB Student)
2) Islamic: (Islamic Jurisprudence by Prof Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee)
Civil Procedure Code CPC : 20 Marks
(From Preamble to 12, 15-20, 47, 75, 96, 104, 115, 151. Orders 1, 6-9, 39, 41, 43).
Criminal Law
P.P.C. 10 Marks
i. Chapter 2 (General Explanations/Definitions).
ii. Chapter 4 (General Exception)
iii. Chapter 16 (Offences Affecting the Human Body).
iv. Chapter 16-A (Wrongful restraint & Wrongful Confinement).
v. Chapter 17 (Offences against Property).
Cr. P.C. 10 Marks
i. Chapter 1 (Preliminary Definitions).
ii. Chapter 5 (Arrest, Escape and Retaking).
iii. Chapter 7 (Processes to compel the production of documents & other moveable property, and for the discovery of persons wrongfully confined).
iv. Chapter 8 (Security for keeping the peace and for good behavior).
v. Chapter 10 (Public Nuisance)
vi. Chapter 11 (Temporary orders in urgent cases of nuisance and apprehended danger).
vii. Chapter 14 (Information to the police and their powers to investigate-FIR).
viii. Chapter 16 (Complaints to magistrate).
ix. Chapter 17 (The commencement of proceedings before court).
x. Chapter 31 (of Appeals)
xi. Chapter 39 (of Bail)