I was wondering if it is possible to be employed as a professor/lecturer while being an advocate. Ordinarily, advocates in India are not allowed to be employed otherwise.
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"Under Rule 49 of the Bar Council of India Rules, an advocate shall not be a full-time employee of any person, Government, firm, corporation or concern and on taking up such employment, shall intimate such fact to the Bar Council concerned and shall cease to practise as long as he is in such employment."
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However certain professional activities are exempted.
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"Rule 51 permits the lecturing and teaching subjects, both legal and non-legal. However, this right is subject to the Advocates (Right to take up Law teaching) rules, 1979. According to rule 3 of the said rules an advocate may, while practicing, take up teaching of law in any educational institution which is affiliated to a University within the meaning of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), so long as the hours during which he is so engaged in the teaching of law do not exceed three hours in a day. When any advocate is employed in any such educational institution for the teaching of law, such employment shall, if the hours during which he is so engaged in the teaching of law do not exceed three hours, be deemed, for the purposes of the Act and the rules made there under, to be a part-time employment irrespective of the manner in which such employment is described or the remuneration receivable (whether by way of a fixed amount or on the basis of any time scale of pay or in any other manner) by the advocate for such employment. "
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It seems that teaching, if it takes up less than 3 hours a day is permitted.
My question is, can a person employed as a professor at a university and having teaching duties of 3 hours a day be registered as an advocate ?