In what could be music to the ears of students aspiring to pursue law in Chennai, the Madras High Court on Thursday said, it expected the State government to find a suitable place within the city limits, and as close as possible to the High Court, for the Chennai Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy wondered how the campuses of a college whose very name begins with the word Chennai could be functioning from Pattarai Perambudur in Tiruvallur district and Pudupakkam in Chengalpattu district.
The judges agreed with advocate N.G.R. Prasad that the students would be at a disadvantage because of their inability to attend the court proceedings regularly, listen to frequent lectures from senior counsel and take up part-time work at law firms while pursuing their masters course due to the distance factor.