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41.
Today’s liberalisation talks: Gov’t very enthu • SILF averts ‘disaster’, swings postponement • Luthra highlights ambiguities
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(Law firms)
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... in two weeks to discuss the proposals. However, the traditionally anti-liberalisation law firm lobby group Silf, represented at the meeting by its president Lalit Bhasin and Luthra & Luthra managing ...
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Created on 05 July 2016
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42.
Newsletter Special Issue 5: In which I stick my neck out and launch the new LI liberalisation likelihood index (Lilli)
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(Newsletters)
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As we would have alerted our premium subscribers on Friday when we broke the news, something actually Big and Important has happened for the first time in ages on the liberalisation front. As we would ...
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Created on 05 July 2016
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43.
Liberalisation is close but far from a done deal: Analysing the BCI, Silf and others’ gameplans and odds of success
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(Law firms)
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The liberalisation process might never have been as advanced, but it remains a process fraught with sensitivity. The liberalisation process might never have been as advanced, but it remains a process ...
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Created on 04 July 2016
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44.
Foreign lawyer entry closer than ever: Read long-awaited BCI draft rules on liberalisation (to be discussed on Tuesday)
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(Law firms)
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... bar councils that liberalisation should happen. On 30 June 2015 the early proposals were sent to prime minister Narendra Modi for sign-off, with the commerce ministry mooting in July 2015 to allow foreign ...
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Created on 01 July 2016
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45.
'It will happen soon', says law ministry on liberalisation, but all depends on speed of bar council
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... secretary PK Malhotra, while addressing a session on the liberalisation of legal services at the Indo-US Cross Border Investment Forum in Delhi this morning, pointed out that the Bar Council of India’s ...
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Created on 19 February 2016
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46.
Liberalisation: ABA talked to BCI, law minister but no hard progress, despite SILF now 'fully supportive' of foreign firm entr
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An American Bar Association (ABA) source told Legally India that the ABA president Paulette Brown had met with the law minister yesterday and talked about liberalisation.
An American Bar Association ...
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Created on 19 February 2016
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47.
COMPAT recruits 2nd member after a year with ex-‘liberalisation’ commerce secretary Rajeev Kher (but speed likely to remain glacial)
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(Competition Law)
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Former commerce secretary and legal sector liberalisation architect Rajeev Kher assumed office as member at the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) yesterday, according to its website, filling one ...
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Created on 10 October 2015
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48.
Ask Kian Anything (AKA): LI editor answers 9 questions live on writing, first gen lawyers, judicial reform, liberalisation & more [UPDATE]
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(Events, conferences, seminars)
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Inspired by Reddit, this Saturday, 29 August between 9 and 10pm, Legally India founder and editor Kian Ganz will try to answer any question, however fundamental or incidental to the legal profession, in ...
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Created on 30 August 2015
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49.
How SILF feels about liberalisation: Not happy but more or less ready for entry, wants Singapore model
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(Bar, Bench & Litigation)
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... of the Singapore model of legal market liberalisation, including its successes and failures, here.
Silf general secretary Rohit Kochhar, the managing partner of Kochhar & Co, said at the event that the ...
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Created on 26 August 2015
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50.
Liberalisation proposal drudging on, India blames BCI in WTO
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(Law firms)
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The proposal for phased liberalisation of Indian legal services has not crossed the Bar Council of India (BCI) hurdle, India told the World Trade Organisation (WTO), reported The Hindu Businessline. ...
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Created on 18 August 2015
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51.
Liberalisation step 1? Gov’t to allow foreign lawyers to arbitrate in India by amending Act, perhaps via ordinance
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(Law firms)
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... here.” Dewan said that this was “more of a first step” towards liberalisation but that Pandey did not specify a timeline for the rest of the liberalisation process. Beginning with arbitration was a less ...
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Created on 22 July 2015
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52.
‘Liberalisation = obsolete subject’, as SILF’s Bhasin vows to go after Big 4’s best friends [read 28-page complaints]
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The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) will complain to the Bar Council of Delhi in the coming week against PDS Legal, Advaita Legal and other Indian law firms that are best friends with accountancy firms, ...
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Created on 16 July 2015
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53.
Lalit Bhasin: SILF wants to start long legal liberalisation process in 2015, says BCI & gov’t agree
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(Law firms)
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... two phases to liberalisation, with the first focusing on lifting domestic restrictions on law firms, which he said prevented firms from marketing, having their “own websites” or “entries in international ...
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Created on 24 February 2015
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54.
Lalit Bhasin, SILF’s staunchest liberalisation opponent, suggests 5-7 year roadmap for foreign law firm entry
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(Law firms)
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Lalit Bhasin has written in a Business Standard column that he was now in favour of allowing the phased entry of foreign law firms… Lalit Bhasin, the chairman of the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) ...
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Created on 15 December 2014
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55.
After 3-year snooze, UK law minister puts Indian legal liberalisation on agenda again
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(Law firms)
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... made a conscious push for Indian legal market liberalisation, was in 2011, when then-law minister Kenneth Clarke made a similar argument as Vara is making now.
While Clarke promised to make a “forceful” ...
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Created on 03 September 2014
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56.
Economic Survey drops last year’s liberalisation talk as avg legal sector growth remains at 8.2%
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(News)
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The Finance Ministry’s 2013-14 economic survey reported that the average growth of the legal industry between 2005-06 and 2012-13 remained at 8.2 per cent per annum – the same average figure found in last ...
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Created on 10 July 2014
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57.
Best friends Trilegal and Allen & Overy break up, citing lack of liberalisation progress
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(Law firms)
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... have ended their five-year best friend relationship, according to a press release from both firms.
The firms said in a joint statement: "Unfortunately the lack of progress towards legal sector liberalisation ...
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Created on 27 September 2012
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58.
A&O to get liberalisation back on agenda with survey showing 9 of 10 corp lawyers want foreign firms, only 1 in 10 want reciprocity
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Aiming to rekindle a “constructive debate” on the liberalisation of the Indian legal sector, UK headquartered magic circle firm Allen & Overy (A&O) has started a public relations (PR) offensive with an ...
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Created on 29 June 2012
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Talking shop: England’s Law Soc pres John Wotton on liberalisation & new BCI dialogues
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(Interviews)
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... & Wales president John Wotton says he is optimistic about the progress of Indian legal market liberalisation. He is not the first foreign lawyer to have felt that way. Exclusive interview: Following ...
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Created on 28 September 2011
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60.
Breaking: Ashurst makes best friends with ex-DSK start-up boutique as liberalisation hopes recede
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(Law firms)
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The firms would give preference in referring work to each other as “best friends” but would remain non-exclusive in line with Indian restrictions, Pant and Ashurst India head Richard Gubbins told Legally ...
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Created on 15 July 2011