Sunday, July 15, 2012

To Readjust The Bar

It’s a legal wrangle over legal practice. The Supreme Court interim order last week, on a petition filed by the Bar Council of India, on the contentious subject of allowing foreign law firms into the country, has rung in the final round of a battle that has raged for the past 18 years. The apex court adjudged that ‘practice of law’ involved both litigation and ‘desk work’ and instructed the Reserve Bank of India not to issue any clearance to any foreign law firm, laying the ground rules for a hearing later this year...........

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