While some bar councils issued similar orders in past, it's first time a state bar body set a compliance deadline. It said violations will invite action under Advocates Act 1961.
Bar Councils aren't amused. With line between public legal education & personal brand-building becoming more blurred, they are cracking down on what they call 'unethical canvassing'.
The petition filed by a group of law researchers who worked between 2018 & 2025 demands the implementation of a 2023 order that raised the monthly salary to Rs 80,000.
Members of legal fraternity call for protocols for online hearings after advocate appears sipping beer. Some say such hearings being treated as luxury, others call them boon.
In the last two months, the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC) has received 2,000 criminal appeals, a big uptick from the 700 to 1,000 it handled annually until last year.
BCI says rules have been enforced with ‘primary objective of safeguarding interests of Indian advocates while regulating the practice of foreign law and international law in India’.
Several senior lawyers deem the proposed hike excessive, calling it potentially detrimental to accessibility of legal profession, especially for aspiring lawyers from low-income families.
Justice Chandrachud said the play, feeding, sleeping and dining area for young children would encourage more women lawyers to participate in the legal profession.
When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.
China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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