Top Law News Madras High Court moved for enrolment of advocates through video conferencing July 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court on Friday impleaded the Bar Council of India in a petition seeking to organise fresh enrolment of advocates through video conferencing in view of COVID-19 pandemic as it was mandatory for appearing for the mandatory All India Bar Exam (AIBE). A special division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice R Pongiappan […] Read more » Bar Council of India enrolment of advocates through video conferencing Justice N. Kirubakaran Justice R Pongiappan Madras High Court
High Profile Cases Delhi police protest darkest day in history : Bar Council of India November 7, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India Wednesday said that the protest by Delhi Police yesterday seems to be “politically motivated” and the “darkest day in the history of independence” and asserted that the guilty police officials should be arrested within a week. BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said in a press release that earlier the BCI […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI Chairman Delhi police protest darkest day in history Manan Kumar Mishra
Top Law News BCI asks Jammu, Kathua bar bodies to call off strike April 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India (BCI) today asked the Jammu and Kathua bar associations to call off their strike and decided to send a five-member team headed by a former high court chief justice to investigate the alleged incident of misconduct on part of the lawyers there in connection with the Kathua rape-murder case. BCI […] Read more » Bar Council of India Crime Branch of J-K Police featured Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court takes cognisance of lawyers’ obstruction in Kathua gangrape case April 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today took a serious note of lawyers obstructing the judicial process in the Kathua gangrape and murder case and initiated a case on its own accord saying such impeding of the process of law “affects the delivery of justice”. The top court said that lawyers’ bodies have solemn duty to not obstruct […] Read more » Bar Council of India featured Gopal Shankar Narayanan Kathua gangrape and murder case Kathua rape casse P V Dinesh Shobha Gupta Supreme Court
Top Law News BCI panel discusses SC crisis with Justice Arun Mishra January 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bar Council of India panel today met Supreme Court judge Arun Mishra and discussed the crisis in the apex judiciary. Justice Mishra was assigned by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra a PIL relating to the death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. Four senior […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI panel featured Justice a J Chelameswar Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice Arun Mishra Justice Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph justice M B Lokur Justice R.K. Agrawal Justice Ranjan Gogoi SC crisis
Top Law News SC deprecates lawyer for saying her client will be raped December 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today deprecated a lawyer for saying that her client, a fugitive businesswoman residing in London, is getting threats from lenders that she will be molested and raped on arrival in India. The top court asked the woman’s counsel to “behave responsibly” or it will refer her to Bar Council of India for […] Read more » Bar Council of India Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News BCI Rules on lawyers verification: SC to hear univs February 11, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said it would hear all the universities in the matter relating to challenge to the Bar Council of India (BCI) Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules 2015, which mandate verification of lawyers. “We will hear all of you and decide it once and for all,” a bench of Justices P […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI Rules on lawyers verification Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Train young lawyers to understand profession,ethics January 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India J S Khehar today urged the Bar Council of India to train young lawyers to make them understand the profession and its work ethics. He also asked the apex lawyers’ body, BCI, to improve the quality of legal institutions by training and helping litigants and make the lawyers competent enough to […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI Chief Justice of India Court featured Law Legal News \ J S Khehar
Top Law News BCI warns Tamil Nadu lawyers against boycott June 21, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India has warned the Tamil Nadulawyers that disciplinary action would be initiated against them for indulging in court boycott to protest against certain amendments made to existing rules under the Advocates Act. The BCI also directed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu andPuducherry to identity such lawyers and submit a list […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI warns Tamil Nadu lawyers Court featured Law Legal News Tamil Nadu
Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News Disciplinary action: HC directs BCI to take a decision on PIL November 13, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to take a decision within a week on a plea seeking to transfer the disciplinary proceedings against 14 lawyers of the Madurai Bar suspended by the Council to Bengaluru. A division bench, comprising Justice R.Sudhakar and Justice V M Velumani, […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI Disciplinary action featured Justice R.Sudhakar Justice V M Velumani Madurai Bench of Madras High Court
Bar, Bench & Firm News Court seeks BCI response over barring DU law graduates November 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought responses of the Bar Council of India (BCI) and Delhi Bar Council (DBC) on a plea challenging the apex law body’s order barring DU law graduates from being enrolled as advocates. Justice Manmohan issued notices to BCI, DBC, Delhi University (DU) and its Faculty of Law and sought the […] Read more » advocate Naushad Ahmad Khan Bar Council of India BCI BCI response over barring DU law graduates Chief Justice G Rohini DBC Delhi Bar Council Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw Legal Education Rules 2008 plea was filed by law student Tarun Narang
Bar, Bench & Firm News Team inspects Delhi University’s law centres October 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A team from the Bar Council of India (BCI), including the Delhi Bar Council chairman, on Tuesday inspected Delhi University Law Faculty’s three centres, holding detailed interactions with students and teachers, and surveying the entire campus. The Law Faculty may get a new campus soon, accommodating the three law centres currently operating out of different […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI Team inspects Delhi University’s law centres
