Bar Council of India Rules, 1975

The Himalayan Co‑operative Group Housing Society expelled several members, including Balwan Singh, for defaulting on deposit payments. The expulsion was approved by the Registrar of Cooperative Societies and upheld by the Revisional Authority. The respondents approached the High Court under Articles 226/227 seeking to …

The appellants filed a partition suit and the respondents later applied under Order XVI Rule 1(1) and (2) read with Section 151 of the CPC to file a list of witnesses, naming the appellants' advocate, N.R. Karnath, as a witness. The trial court allowed the list but rejected the request to summon the advocate because no…

M. Veerabhadra Rao, a junior advocate, attested a forged affidavit (Ex. A‑1) on behalf of respondent Tek Chand, enabling the procurement of an income‑tax clearance certificate and registration of a sale deed. The State Bar Council’s Disciplinary Committee found him guilty of professional misconduct for attesting the af…

The Bar Council of India appealed against orders allowing foreign law firms and lawyers to operate in India, arguing that the Advocates Act, 1961 restricts the practice of law to advocates enrolled with the Bar Council, covering both litigation and non‑litigation work. The Supreme Court examined whether foreign entitie…

Advocates O.P. Sharma and others verbally abused and threatened a Judicial Magistrate in a Faridabad court, using filthy language and slogans. The High Court, acting suo motu, convicted them of criminal contempt under s.2(c) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 and sentenced them to simple imprisonment and fine. The adv…

The Supreme Court examined the legality of resolutions passed by various Bar Associations refusing to represent certain accused persons in criminal cases. It held that every individual, irrespective of the nature of the alleged crime, has a constitutional right to be defended and that it is the lawyer's duty to accept …

The case concerned a former advocate who had become a judicial officer, was dismissed for corruption, and later sought to resume legal practice. After his resumption, members of the local bar objected and the Bar Council of India initiated disciplinary proceedings under Section 35 of the Advocates Act, alleging miscond…

Satish Kumar Sharma, a full‑time salaried law officer of the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board, was enrolled as an advocate in 1984. After more than a decade, the Himachal Pradesh Bar Council cancelled his enrollment, invoking Rule 49 of the Bar Council of India Rules, which bars full‑time salaried employees fro…

Baldev Raj Sharma obtained a two‑year LL.B (Academic) degree as a private candidate from Kurukshetra University and later completed the third year of the professional LL.B as a regular student at Kanpur University, receiving the LL.B (Professional) degree in 1982. He applied to the Punjab and Haryana State Bar Council …