<b>M J Antony:</b> The litigation vortex

Aspirants for professional courses queue up before courts soon after entrance results

Advice to youth now preparing for entrance examinations: Prepare well and keep cool. Advice to their parents: Find a good lawyer. This is because after every season for admission to professional colleges, there is a rush of candidates to the high courts and the Supreme Court. This was a growing practice in the last two decades.

There are about a dozen issues which invite a harvest of litigation. Apart from irregularities in conducting tests and counselling, some other matters that give rise to cause of action to go to courts are disputes over affiliation of colleges, merit seats versus management quota,