The Bar Council of India (BCI) will appeal the 6 October Madras high court order that suggested disbanding the BCI and replacing it with a body of experts as well as doing away with the three-year LLB degree.
The Deccan Herald reported that:
A BCI general council meeting, attended by members from across country here, decided to challenge the 6 October order by a division bench, BCI co-chairman S Prabhakaran told Deccan Herald.
Prabhakaran told the Herald:
We can’t bar anyone from getting enrolled merely on the basis of a criminal case as it would violate the principle of natural justice. Further, we can’t replace the three-year degree course with the five-year course only as it would require an additional two years for a candidate to complete his post-graduation.
Justice N Kurubakaran’s reform ideas were made in a direction to the Centre to revise the Advocates Act to ban criminal and violent individuals from the legal profession.
Also read: Column on the impossibility of regulating the legal profession.
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For lawyers who are into doing leave and license agreements, rental agreement, deed of property sale, etc - why do we need even a 3 year degree? And trust me, there are thousands of lawyers who deal only in above matters.
http://scroll.in/article/761938/how-to-stop-criminals-from-becoming-lawyers-a-high-court-order-proposes-the-wrong-solution
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Most traditional colleges offering the three-year course have very few hours of class every day and even these don’t always require strict attendance. As a result, these colleges tend to attract those who are pursuing law just to gain another degree or those who want to be lawyers due to some vested interest. Criminals actively seek to join the legal profession, as it is believed that the police are wary of taking action against lawyers in general and especially in states like Tamil Nadu, where advocates’ associations actively take to the streets and protest police action against their members.
The High Court order directed the termination of the three-year course, noting that criminals cannot use the five-year course to gain entry into the profession because of the age limit.
The abolition of the three-year course, it is therefore clear, will not solve the problem of criminals becoming lawyers. With no age bar, there is nothing stopping criminals, old or young, from gaining entry into the profession through the five-year course. The bigger problem is the existence of substandard colleges that sell or grant degrees without their students ever having attended classes: it is their existence that is allowing criminals to earn the lawyer tag quickly.
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