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Door's open, yet foreign law companies stay on the fenceRegulatory uncertainty, tax ambiguity and thin margins have kept foreign law firms from launching offices here despite market liberalisatio...
Rules amended for entry of foreign legal firmsThe Bar Council of India has amended rules to permit foreign lawyers and law firms to practice international law in India on a reciprocal b...
Earmarked 500 law colleges which are sub-standard, surprise inspections to be done: BCI to Supreme CourtIn an affidavit filed in a matter related to reforms in legal education and placements of young lawyers, the BCI said that it is constituti...
BCI: Lawyer-MPs mustn’t appear before judge facing impeachmentIn a resolution passed by the general council meeting of BCI said MPs and MLAs could not be banned from practising law but they should be r...
Foreign lawyers, firms cannot practice law in India: Supreme CourtThe court also modifed a Madras High Court order permitting foreign lawyers and law firms to come to India on a "fly in and fly out" basis ...
Foreign law firms case: Will step in if BCI fails to frame rules, say CentreThe BCI, on its part, said it was willing to frame rules to allow foreign firms on the basis of reciprocity, but did not want to give forei...
Centre seeks Supreme Court's early hearing of plea on entry of foreign lawyersLaw ministry said the civil appeal on the issue was unlikely to be listed in near future and as the matter was of "utmost importance", it w...
Lawyers plan protest, want law panel report scrappedThe Law Commission has recommended action against striking lawyers and allowing entry of foreign lawyers and law firms, among other changes...
Lawyers plan nationwide stir against Advocates BillUpset over Law Commission's suggestions about action against striking lawyers and entry of foreign cos, Bar Council asks lawyers to burn co...
HC grants interim stay on Bar Council of India's circular on age limit for law aspirantsFollowing this, the Maharashtra government this year asked all law colleges to keep in mind the age limit following which the petitions wer...
Over 30% of lawyers have fake degrees: Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra“We have implemented the BCI Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules 2015 and have now made it mandatory for all lawyers to ...
Government pursuing issue of foreign law firms to practice in IndiaThe government is "actively pursuing" with the Bar Council of India the issue of framing rules so that foreign law firms can practice in In...
Bar Council of India and Society of Indian Law Firms okay with foreign lawyers' entryThe view among top lawyers and lawyers' bodies is that in the era of global integration, legal services should not remain closed for foreig...
Stunned by Jitender Singh Tomar's arrest, Bar Council to vet all degreesThe Bar Council of India has decided to scrutinize educational qualifications of all those enrolled with it to weed out fake advocates.
Government yet to take call on entry of foreign lawyers in IndiaThe previous United Progressive Alliance government had been asked for its view three years ago but had left it to the Bar Council of India.
- HER Bill will not curtail powers of BCI: Kapil Sibal
NEW DELHI: Dismissing concerns of the apex lawyers' body, Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today said that he was not curtailing the powers o...
- India may throw open doors to UK law firms
The law ministry may allow UK-based law firms to practise in India provided the UK government also allows Indian lawyers to work there.