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Possibly final leg of liberalisation case to continue tomorrow (23 Jan) in SC
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We did a brief report in the Law Society Gazette today on the Supreme Court liberalisation hearings... Law Society Gazette reported: End game nears for India liberalisation case | News | Law Society Gazette ...
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Created on 22 January 2018
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Liberalisation in SC: Centre, LCIA feel Indian lawyers would bear brunt offshore if BCI, SC don’t hurry up in welcoming foreign firms
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... it feared that a delay in legal services liberalisation in India would harm practising privileges of Indian lawyers abroad, reported Live Law. Senior advocate Dave was rebutting senior counsel CU Singh' ...
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Created on 11 January 2018
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11 myths against foreign law firm entry countered (as presented at INBA-Ministry liberalisation conference)
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On Saturday, 11 November, the Indian National Bar Association (INBA) had held the “Bar Leadership Summit on Reforms in the Indian Legal Sector” conference to discuss the future and liberalisation of the ...
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Created on 16 November 2017
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With eye on liberalisation, Khaitan Delhi counsel Nishant Beniwal joins Spanish solar company Asia legal head
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Khaitan & Co Delhi counsel Nishant Beniwal has joined Spanish solar energy company Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) as head of legal for India and Asia. Khaitan & Co Delhi counsel Nishant Beniwal has ...
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Created on 29 September 2017
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At cosy ministry meet, SILF’s Bhasin, Sagar, Saraf press Indian lawyer hiring ban again for Phase 1 of liberalisation, INBA disagrees
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... & Co, IndusLaw in 2015). Ball in ministry's court? Traditionally, one of the top concerns of some top Indian law firms' promoters about liberalisation has been that foreign law firms would cherry-pick from ...
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Created on 22 September 2017
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Read the official gov’t minutes to blockbuster liberalisation meeting: Gov’t serious (but a tad confused about how)
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The commerce and law ministries are unequivocally in favour of opening up the legal sector to foreign lawyers as soon as possible, reveal the full minutes of the July meeting between ministries and lawyers, ...
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Created on 25 August 2017
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As SILF predicts liberalisation will happen any day now, BCI set to meet govt for long overdue talks tomorrow
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... Supreme Court judge’ open and unconditional support in favour of legal services liberalisation. Full email The BCI meeting comes 10 months after the BCI walked out on the first such liberalisation discussions ...
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Created on 27 July 2017
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Gov tells SC: Closing liberalisation issue at ‘earliest possible’ of 'utmost importance
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... of India (CJI) JS Khehar earlier this month spoke out strongly in favour of liberalisation at a function, closely followed by the BCI deciding that it and state bar councils would continue to wholly oppose ...
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Created on 19 July 2017
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GCs from India Inc agree: ‘BCI is the biggest bottleneck to law firm liberalisation at the moment’ but much work remains more widely
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General counsel (GCs) from at least 15 big Indian companies welcomed liberalisation in Indian legal services, and said that the Bar Council of India (BCI) was currently the “biggest bottleneck” to law ...
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Created on 06 February 2017
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‘Liberalisation can never happen through BCI’: Ranbir Singh at Indo-Aus conference • Salman Khursheed: Young lawyers should help support it
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The Bar Council of India (BCI) cannot be relied upon to take the legal services liberalisation process forward, said NLU Delhi vice chancellor (VC) Ranbir Singh on Saturday. The Bar Council of India ...
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Created on 14 December 2016
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Subscribe to read: 4 law firm salary surveys in 1 • Exit on ice • Of liberalisation & Lalit • Delhi bar politics
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Today’s special letter from me exclusively to our dearest subscribers again has a lot of fun and interesting content. I won’t spoil it for you, but if you’re interested, please subscribe below at a tier ...
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Created on 28 November 2016
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ICCA seeks to rescue liberalisation talks with 8-week roadmap to hammer things out • Responds to BCI slights
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The Indian Corporate Counsels Association (ICCA) has proposed eight weekly meetings between various stakeholders in the legal services liberalisation discussion, in order to prepare a status report on ...
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Created on 21 October 2016
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Upset BCI U-turns, throws spanners into today’s legal liberalisation talks • Ball now in GOI (and Supreme) court
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The Bar Council of India (BCI) has backtracked on its earlier full-throated support of liberalisation of the legal market in a six-page letter, saying that it had encountered “strong opposition” from state ...
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Created on 29 September 2016
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ICCA draft liberalisation bill is most thorough yet: Proposes 26-49% legal FDI within 2-5 years, ad rules, CLE, insurance, more
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The Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA) has produced draft of a Foreign Legal Practitioners (Regulation of Practice) Bill 2016, which it will present at today’s meeting with ministries and stakeholders ...
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Created on 29 September 2016
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‘Open legal market immediately’, proposes Indian Nat’l Bar Ass’n (INBA) in liberalisation report
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The Indian National Bar Association (INBA) has weighed into the legal market liberalisation debate, coming up with a proposal that would see foreign law firms entering by the end of this year, with “complete ...
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Created on 20 September 2016
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Liberalisation: Silf submits 52-page vision about how legal market should open in phases
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The Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf) has sent its notes to the commerce ministry in the latest stage of the liberalisation talks. The Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf) has sent its notes to the commerce ...
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Created on 24 August 2016
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LIVE BLOG • JGLS liberalisation talks: Commerce ministry talks plainly, discusses with Lalit Bhasin, R Luthra and more…
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... legal liberalisation yet. 17:28: Verma: “I really do believe for India to fulfill its global economic potential, it should participate in the gradual globalisation of the legal profession.” 17:30 He ...
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Created on 11 August 2016
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Meeting minutes reveal: SILF to arrange dinner with liberalisation ministers, law secretary • To build Rs 12.5 cr office with bar association
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... minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, the minister of state PP Chaudhary and law secretary Suresh Chandra, who is spearheading the liberalisation talks. According to a copy of the minutes of the meeting of ...
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Created on 14 July 2016
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Will parliamentary monsoon session (and maybe liberalisation) be a washout because of SC Arunachal verdict?
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The Narendra Modi government’s push for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill and other legislation - including potential reforms of the legal services sector - could see another roadblock in the upcoming ...
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Created on 14 July 2016
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Liberalisation Silf meet yday: Momentum grows, group of 7 law firm leaders to finalise stance by month-end
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... we first published on 1 July. Also read: Liberalisation is close but far from a done deal: Analysing the BCI, Silf and others’ gameplans and odds of success This news was first published in our subscriber-only ...
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Created on 12 July 2016