Team  SoOLEGAL

Apex Court Reserves Orders on Petition Against Lawyers Verification

Team SoOLEGAL 22 Nov 2017 11:12am

Image courtesy: Bar council drive to verify lawyers hits a roadblock as varsities demand fees Apex Court Reserves Orders on Petition Against Lawyers Verification

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the plea concerning verification of lawyers and conducting elections to various state bar councils and reserves its order with regard to conducting of elections.

The court reserved orders on a batch of petitions challenging the certificate and place of practice (verification) Rules of 2015 which requires a mass verification of lawyers credentials to weed out fake practitioners.

The Bar Council of India submitted before a bench led by Justice R.K. Agrawal that the verification was still on and reports have been received from various State Bar Councils. The BCI informed the court that out of over 15 lakh enrolled advocates, over six lakh have submitted verification forms.

The BCI said a high-level verification committee has been formed under former Supreme Court judge, Justice Anil R. Dave. The panel has already met with State Bar Councils.

The Bench however, expressed concern that the verification process could stall elections to the State bar councils and said it would pass orders on the petitions on November 24.

The petitions have alleged that the resolution by the apex lawyers' body on January 13, 2015 titled 'Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules 2015' was unconstitutional and violative of the Advocates Act.  




Tagged: Supreme Court   Lawyers verification   Bar Councils   Advocates  
Did you find this write up useful? YES 3 NO 0
×

C2RMTo Know More

Something Awesome Is In The Work

0

DAYS

0

HOURS

0

MINUTES

0

SECONDS

Sign-up and we will notify you of our launch.
We’ll also give some discount for your effort :)

* We won’t use your email for spam, just to notify you of our launch.
×

SAARTHTo Know More

Launching Soon : SAARTH, your complete client, case, practise & document management SAAS application with direct client chat feature.

If you want to know more give us a Call at :+91 98109 29455 or Mail info@soolegal.com