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Bar Council/Assns Members will be debarred from appearing before Courts if they call for strike, says MP HC

Team SoOLEGAL 1 Aug 2018 5:45pm

Bar Council/Assns Members will be debarred from appearing before Courts if they call for strike, says MP HC

The division bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday issued significant directives against strike calls by the State Bar Council and Bar Associations, including debarring the members/officials of the Bar Council/Association from appearing before courts in case they call for strike.

The directives were issued by the MP HC bench comprising Chief Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla.

The bench also directed the high court administration to formulate rules to debar members of the Bar from appearing in courts if they abstain from work.

The HC bench also observed that if the State Bar Council, which is a statutory authority created to take action against lawyers for their misconduct, fails in its duty as warranted under the law then severe action is warranted against the disciplinary authority itself.

The court observations were made while hearing a petition filed by an advocate, Praveen Pandey, who had challenged the call by the State Bar Council asking advocates to abstain from work for an entire week, from 9th to 14th April this year.

The court, however, in an earlier order had observed that the decision of the State Bar Council calling upon the advocates to observe a week-long protest and to abstain from court work is “illegal and unconstitutional”.

The Madhya Pradesh HC then issued the directives in continuation of its earlier order. 

Source: Live Law



Tagged: Madhya Pradesh HC   State Bar Council   State Bar Association   Strike Calls  
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