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Topic: Advocate

SC reconsiders 3-yr legal practice mandate for judicial office. What this will mean for women

As the Supreme Court reviews its mandate on three years’ advocacy before judicial entry, women aspirants speak of financial strain, marriage pressure and an uncertain wait.

Anticipatory bail for Bar Council of Delhi staffer amid probe into ‘fake’ lawyer ‘enrollment racket’

Staffer allegedly helped a lawyer holding a fake law degree to get enrolled in Council with insider connections. Court says the only 'incriminating evidence' was the lawyer's statement.

What was the points-based system for designating senior advocates & why SC scrapped it

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has scrapped the points-based system of designating senior advocates and issued a new set of guidelines since the existing process was...

Bar Council demands removal of provisions in Advocates Bill that ‘undermine its autonomy’

BCI has written to the law ministry protesting several ‘unilateral’ additions & demanding their immediate removal; warns of nationwide protests.

Chennai visually impaired lawyer creates history by clearing Supreme Court’s advocate-on-record exam

N.Visakhamurthy, a patient of Retinitis Pigmentosa with Macular degeneration, is among 26O candidates to clear exam held in December last year. He had earlier cleared TNPSC & UPSC.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.