{"id":59162,"date":"2020-03-26T19:20:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=59162"},"modified":"2020-03-26T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:53:05","slug":"scba-mulls-bci-plea-to-help-financially-troubled-lawyers-in-wake-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/scba-mulls-bci-plea-to-help-financially-troubled-lawyers-in-wake-of-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"SCBA mulls BCI plea to help financially-troubled lawyers in wake of COVID-19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Bar Council of India urged the Prime Minister and states to help the financially stressed lawyers in wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ashok Arora has sought views of the members of the Association on extending financial help for such lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The contributions thus collected are proposed to be diverted towards the beneficiaries. This could be done without revealing the beneficiary\u2019s identity so as to not hurt anyone\u2019s dignity, Arora said in the <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/scba.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"59163\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/scba-mulls-bci-plea-to-help-financially-troubled-lawyers-in-wake-of-covid-19\/scba\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/scba.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scba\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/scba.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/scba.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-59163\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/scba.jpg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/scba.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/scba.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>message he put out for the SCBA members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BCI would like to make a fervent and urgent request to your good selves to kindly make a provision for providing a minimum subsistence allowance of Rs 20,000 per month for young and not financially well-off advocates, who are staying and practising in the country,\u201d BCI said in a letter addressed to the senior leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Arora has proposed that money can also be collected from senior advocates and as well as from the SCBA funds\u00a0for this purpose and the\u00a0recipients names shall be\u00a0kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>While this is only a proposal at the moment, Arora has sought the opinion of the\u00a0members of the SCBA Executive Committee as well as from\u00a0other members of the Association.<\/p>\n<p>Due to restricted functioning of courts, earning opportunities have ceased for lawyers, who it said earn and live by the day or earnings of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Since the advocate fraternity has no social security benefits and if at all any unforeseeable situation presents itself, many advocates as well as their\u00a0families would face \u00a0difficulties, it added. The top court has been functioning on restricted terms since March 16, to decongest the court and thereby minimise the risk of spreading the coronavirus. On March 23, the restricted functioning was further thinned down to skeletal staff required to only hear matters of extreme urgency via video conferencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Bar Council of India urged the Prime Minister and states to help the financially stressed lawyers in wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ashok Arora has sought views of the members of the Association on extending financial help for such lawyers. 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