Centre mulls abolishing BCI; Manan Kumar Mishra disagrees

Thursday, 5 May 2016 By Legally India Bar, Bench & Litigation

The government is considering replacing regulators for the the legal, medical, chartered accountancy, cost accountancy, and company secretarial professions.

The BCI may be obsolete in many ways, but it's unlikely to go without a fight...
The BCI may be obsolete in many ways, but it's unlikely to go without a fight...

The commerce ministry is considering replacing regulators for the the legal, medical, chartered accountancy, cost accountancy, and company secretarial professions and replacing them with independent regulators, reported The Hindu.

The reputation of the regulators that are generally run by practising professionals has been hurt by several cases of conflicts of interest, reported the paper:

This hurt the credibility and reputation of these bodies and hampered India’s attempts to secure Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRA) with other countries to enable easier temporary movement of skilled workers and professionals across borders, the sources said.

The paper also included a comment from Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, who dismissed allegations of conflict of interest and objected to a super-regulator being appointed:

He said the BCI involves former Supreme Court judges, chief justices of high courts and top academicians in its legal education and disciplinary committees and questioned, “What can be more superior?”

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Comments

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 5 May 2016, 15:27
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BRILLIANT NEWS!!!!!!!!!

And BTW what is Manan Ishra saying?? Since when are judges and academicians part of BCI? ON the contrary they are ignored, which is one of the problems.
BCI 6 May 2016, 11:22
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In fact these goons (BCI members) in BCI are the main in-charge of all BCI activities. Judges have no role and they are never part of BCI. This idiot Mishra is just making fool of us.
Dazed and Confused 12 May 2016, 12:45
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Mishra may be the quintessential Ugly Defendant, but he deserves the support of every practicing lawyer. The same people who propose to require everyone with a GPS-enabled device to register with the government now want to regulate the legal profession. Who's worse than Mishra? Not only this government, but actually, any government. Self-regulation of the profession is a hallmark of the Common Law legal profession and must be defended, even if you find yourself alongside folks such as Mishra. It's us against them, and he's one of us. Suck it up and fight the power.
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