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It was created by Parliament under the Advocates Act, 1961. It prescribes standards of professional conduct , etiquette and exercises disciplinary jurisdiction over the bar. It also sets standards for legal education and grants recognition to universities whose degree in law will serve as a qualification for students to enroll themselves as ...
Once the advocate passes the examination, they will be entitled to a Certificate of Practice law throughout India. [8] [9] It is clarified that the Bar Examination shall be mandatory for all law students graduating from academic year 2009-2010 onwards and enrolled as advocates under Section 24 of the Advocates Act, 1961. [10]
Bar Council of Karnataka was formed as per the requirement of Section 3 of Advocates Act, 1961 [1] which mandates each state of India to have a Bar Council. On 30 June 2018, [1] the Karnataka Bar Council was formed. As per the guidelines the legal profession in India and the standards of legal education would be regulated by All India Bar Council.
Section 7 of the Advocates Act, 1961 lays down the Bar Council's regulatory and representative mandatory. Bar Councils of each place has following functions: Facilitating the election with rules for members to get elected and manage the Bar Council. [2] Designing the professional behaviours and code to be followed by advocates who are its members.
It was constituted as per the mandatory requirement as per Advocates Act, 1961 and Bar Council of India. In March 1953, S. R. Das as head of the 'All India Bar Committee', proposed the creation of the apex body as an All-India Bar Council and Bar council at state levels and submitted a report to the Central Government of India.
Voting rights in elections are available only for advocates having a Certificate of Practice. Till the year 2018, there were around 60,000 enrolled advocates as members of the Madras Bar Council. As per the Advocates Act, the bar council of the state should have 25 members in case the members on roll exceeds 10000. [19]
In India, the law relating to barristers is the Advocates Act, 1961, which is administered and enforced by the Bar Council of India. Under the act, the council is the supreme regulatory body for the legal profession in India, ensuring the compliance of the laws and maintenance of professional standards by the legal profession in the country.
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.