Sarosh Zaiwalla

Founder partner of Zaiwalla Co. & Solicitors, UK

- LawZ Bureau

Q: Did you find much difference in the standard of legal education in Indian universities and UK Colleges

Yes of course. There is an enormous difference, especially at college level. Indian education system, until recently was very much a colonial education system, which did not allow the students to think. A student is expected to reproduce, whatever is being printed in the books and taught in the class rooms. Whereas, in UK Colleges, the legal education is aimed at inspiring students to think on their own and develop a subject for themselves. This, I believe is the biggest and the most significant departure between the legal education system in the two countries. I would not blame the Indian Universities for this. We have inculcated this system from the 200 hundred years of British ruling, when 4000 Whites ruled 400 million Indians and therefore they only wanted Clerks to do exactly what they are told and not to prompt their own philosophy. This culture has still continued and we have been following the same system of not thinking out of the box. But gradually this system is changing and I am grateful that this has now substantially changed.