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Reserving the judgement on as many as 10 petitions, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala referred to Section 24 of the Advocates Act, 1961 and said the fee for a law graduate to be enrolled as a lawyer is Rs 600 and Parliament alone can increase it by amending the law.
The panel's next meeting is scheduled for February 10 and, before that, it may hold consultations with some more legal luminaries and political leaders, the people said. The committee has so far received responses from 26 of the 47 parties from which it had sought their views on simultaneous polls for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
Presentation on economic benefits of simultaneous polls made to committee
The Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday advocated for Indian languages to be used in constitutional courts across the country while speaking at an event organised by the Bar Council of...
The council claimed that the bar is the "voice of the common men" and asked the top court to defer the issue to parliament. But is the statutory body, led by BJP-member Manan Kumar Mishra, only acting as a pressure group on behalf of the government?