Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, argued in a blog post to “bring Indian lawyers under Consumer Protection Act, 1986”: By the decision of the Indian Supreme Court in Indian Medical Association vs. VP Shantha, AIR 1996 SC 550, doctors were brought under the purview of the Indian Consumer Pr...

Advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh, who have represented the 2012 Delhi gangrape convicts and recently made controversial and misogynistic comments in a documentary that was banned in India, have been served with three-week show cause notices by the Bar Council of India (BCI), which deliberated on the...

The Delhi bar council will take suo motu action against advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh, who made controversial comments in a documentary about the December 2012 Delhi rapists.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) is likely to meet this evening over the controversial remarks made by two defence advocates in the BBC documentary about the December 2012 gang-rape . “The meeting will take place late evening in Delhi to decide further course of action on the matter,” BCI chairman Man...

The Kerala bar council’s disciplinary committee has stayed an advocate’s professional misconduct suspension for two months after an appeal by the advocate, against whom the bar council handed down a one year suspension for “proved misconduct” of a very serious nature for cheating the complainants in...

The New York Times’ India Ink blog has interviewed the Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra who said that around 4,000 complaints were pending with the BCI, which is the state bar councils’ appellate body for disciplinary cases, while around 1.7 million lawyers were enrolled.

Exclusive: The Delhi bar council held an emergency meeting yesterday, ruling on allegations by its youngest member Rajesh Mishra’ that he was assaulted by a pistol-armed group of lawyers, including elected Delhi bar council member […], following an altercation ostensibly over recognition of a local bar association.