The concept of continued legal education in Indian
judiciary is also of recent origin.
The concept of institutionalized legal and judicial education even in
the developed countries of the world is not too old. Training in the
judicial field was first initiated and accepted in France as late as in the
year 1958. It was followed by United States in 1963 by way of
establishing National Judicial College. United Kingdom followed the
system in the year 1979 by establishing Judicial Studies Board.
However, formal training process to the judicial officers began in the
year 1987 after a long debate. The Canadian Judicial Council conducted
its first training session in 1972, but its Judicial Training Institute came
into operation only in 1988. Australia also adopted identical scheme of
Judicial training in 1975. Coming home it might be noted that even
though State level training institutes had been functioning since before
in some of the States the first national level centre for Judicial Training
and education in India came up only in the year 2005, which has been
named as National Judicial Academy, presently located at Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh. Thus the concept of continued judicial education for
the Judicial Officers through induction training and in-service training is
of recent origin in our country.