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Aug 28 1933 (PC)

In Re: Philip N. Godinho

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1934Bom70; (1934)36BOMLR1

..... in that court.6. now, the rules in question are, i think, valid under the indian bar councils act, 1926. it is true that under section 8 of the indian bar councils act, a single roll of advocates is constituted. but in section 9, which authorises the bar council to make rules regulating the admission of persons to be advocates, there is contained in sub- ..... petitioners have to show that they are authorised by law to practise in the criminal sessions of the high court, and it is clear that apart from the indian bar councils act there is no such law which authorises the advocates to practise in the criminal sessions of the high court. on the other hand, under the rules made under ..... sessions held by the high court is part of its ordinary original jurisdiction. this is clear from clause 22 of the letters patent.20. the provisions of the indian bar councils act, to which i have referred, leave no doubt in the matter, and, in my opinion, there is only one answer which can be given to the point .....

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Oct 27 1952 (SC)

Aswini Kumar Ghosh and anr. Vs. Arabinda Bose and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1952SC369; [1953]4SCR1

..... exercise of their original jurisdictions. it is next pointed out that sections 9(4) and 14(3) of the indian bar councils act preserve these rules and it is contended that a supersession of the indian bar councils act in its entirety will do away with sections 9(4) and 14(3) and the protection of those sections ..... their application to particular species or categories of lawyers, to connote the different professional attributes of those different categories or species. 91. turning to the indian bar councils act we find that the expression 'to practice' has been used in various sections in the generic sense i have mentioned. let me illustrate my meaning ..... of the statute. 87. assuming, however, that the qualifying clause does not attach to the words 'indian bar councils act', that circumstance will, nevertheless, make no difference in the legal position. section 8(1) of the indian bar councils act provides as follows : 'no person shall be entitled as of right to practise in any high court, .....

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May 02 1978 (HC)

Rajendra Shankar Tripathi Vs. State of U.P. and ors.

Court : Allahabad

Reported in : 1979CriLJ243

..... enroll such and so many advocates as it thought fit. this provision also makes it manifest that persons enrolled under section 41 were called advocates. the indian bar councils act, 1926 defined an 'advocate' as meaning one 'entered in the roll of advocates of a high court under the provisions of this ..... for appointment as district government counsel (criminal), unnao. further, it has been stated that the opposite party no. 3 was an advocate enrolled by the u. p. bar council when he was appointed as district government counsel (criminal), unnao, hence he was eligible for being appointed to that office and the provisions of section 24(5) of ..... rather uses the term 'advocate'. the earlier statutes on the subject may at this stage be referred to for understanding the meaning of the term 'advocate', the legal practitioners act, 1879, defines 'legal practitioner' as meaning an advocate, vakil or attorney of any high court, a pleader, mukhtar or revenue agent. this indicates that an advocate was .....

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Apr 22 1963 (HC)

K.S. Iyer Vs. Bar Council Represented by Its Secretary, H.C. Madras

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1964Mad390

..... the old pudukottai state by renewing their sannads on their paying the usual fee. sometime thereafter the appellant filed his paper before the bar council constituted under the indian bar councils act, 1926 for emelment as an advocate of this court. the bar council declined to accede to his request as he did not possess the requisite qualifications which would entitle him to be enrolled as an advocate ..... person entitled to be enrolled as an advocate under the pre-existing law.5. prior to the passing of the advocates act, admission as an advocate of the high court was regulated by the indian bar councils act. rules have been framed by the bar council with the previous sanction of the high court under sections 9 and 15 of that enactment for regulating admission of persons .....

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Jan 29 1963 (HC)

Sunil Kumar Sinha Ray Vs. State of West Bengal and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1963Cal614

..... .'34. the supreme court further negatived the contention that this proviso to section 9(1) of the indian bar councils act was void as conflicting with the fundamental right guaranteed under article 19(1)(g) and that it did not come within the protection afforded by clause (6) of ..... enrolment and that without assigning any reason. the supreme court held that a complete answer to this was furnished by the proviso to section 9(i) of the indian bar councils act which provides that the rules 'shall not limit or in any way affect the power of the high court to refuse admission to any person at its discretion ..... admission and certificates of proper persons to be mukhtears of the subordinate courts and in the case of high court not established by royal charter in respect of which the indian bar council act, 1926 is not in force, of such courts, (c) the fees to be paid for the examination and admission of such persons and (d) the suspension .....

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Aug 09 1966 (HC)

V.G. Row Vs. N. Krishnaswami Reddy and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1967Mad345

..... of advocates, vakils and pleaders, who were entitled as of right to practice. in the context of the provisions of the letters patent, the legal practitioners act and the indian bar councils act, if the words in article 217 and article 233 are examined, it will be clear that for qualifying to be a judge, one must be a ..... advocates and vakils on the roll of a high court under the letters patent, and (2) pleaders who were entitled to practice in the subordinate courts. the indian bar councils act 1926, provided for admission and enrollment of advocates. section 8(1) provided that no person shall be entitled as of right to practice in any high court, ..... article 217 of the constitution, i an, therefore, unable to accept the contention of the petitioner.(6) the petitioner has alleged that the state government did not act in terms of the constitution, and were influenced by extraneous reasons and irrelevant considerations, and that they committed fraud on the constitution. the appointment of a high .....

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Jul 30 2024 (SC)

Gaurav Kumar Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... bar committee (1953) 15 15 ibid 16 1926 act 13 part d section 8 pertained ..... for the creation of an all-india bar.15. to give effect to this demand, the colonial legislature enacted the indian bar councils act 192616 to provide for the constitution and incorporation of bar councils and to confer powers and impose duties on such bar councils. section 3 prescribed the constitution of a bar council for every high court. 13 section 41, legal practitioners act 1879 14 report of the all-india .....

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Jan 21 2013 (SC)

Deepak Aggarwal Vs. Keshav Kaushik and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... vakil and an attorney of a high court.13. prior to indian advocates act, 1961, [the indian]. bar councils act, 1926 (for short, 1926 act ) dealt with the functions of the bar council and the admission and enrolment of advocates. section 2(1)(a) of the 1926 act had defined advocate as meaning an advocate entered in the roll ..... of advocates of a high court under the provisions of that act.14. section 8(1) of the 1926 act ..... for right of advocates to practice.16. on constitution of the state bar council under the advocates act, 1961 (for short, 1961 act ), the relevant provisions of the 1926 act stood repealed. section 17 of the 1961 act provides that every state bar council shall prepare and maintain a roll of advocates. it further provides .....

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Jan 27 1971 (HC)

Bhupati Bhusan Dalal Vs. Registrar of the Original Side

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1971Cal519

..... was entitled to practise (as of right) in any court subordinate to such high court. but this right was not extended to the high court itself. (c) indian bar councils act, 1926. -- apart from the advocates, there were other classes of legal practitioners to india, such as the barristers, vakils, pleaders whom i have not mentioned so ..... to avid complications. as pointed out in aswini kumar's case, : [1953]4scr1 ; there was a demand for 'unification and autonomy of the bar', as a result of which the indian bar councils act was passed in 1926. this was also a statute 'to consolidate and amend the law relating legal practitioners'. it extended the concept of 'entitled as ..... 'on the date on which chap. iv comes into force, the following shall stand repealed, namely,-- (c) section 14 of the indian bar councils act, 1926, so much of ss. 8 and 15 of that act as confer on legal practitioners the right to practise in any court ...............; (e) the provisions of the letters patent of any high court .....

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Jan 24 2002 (HC)

Kaushik Kantilal Trivedi and anr. Vs. Secretary, Gujarat Public Servic ...

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : (2002)3GLR83

..... to such high court as they were entitled on enrolment, as aforesaid, to practise either in the high court or in court or courts subordinate thereto or both. the indian bar councils act, 1926 also defined an 'advocate' meaning one 'entered in the roll of advocates of a high court under the provisions of this ..... thus an advocate of the high court irrespective of whether he practiced in the high court or in the courts subordinate thereto, and as seen from sec, 10 of the bar councils act, he became amenable to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the high court by reason of his being enrolled as an advocate of the high court. the expression 'an advocate of ..... on which this section came into force in respect thereof; and (b) all other persons who were admitted to be 'advocates of the high court' under this act. section 9 empowered the bar council to make rules to regulate the admission of persons to be 'advocates of the high court', and section 10 gave power to the high court in the manner .....

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