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April 2017
More
than 14 lakh lawyers across the country will observe a half-day strike on
Friday to protest against Law Commission recommendations, including a proposal
to ban strikes by advocates, the Bar Council of India (BCI) said on Thursday.
Lawyers
will abstain from court work after lunch on April 21 and also burn copies of
the Law Commission recommendations and the Advocates Act (Amendment) Bill 2017,
BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told media here.
The
Law Commission had also suggested that lawyers should be slapped with penalties
if they resort to strike in future. The Total
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The
BCI has dubbed the amendments proposed by the Law Commission in the Advocates
Act as "draconian, anti-lawyers, unconstitutional, undemocratic and
anti-people".
"The
Law Commission recommendations are against the legal profession and
independence of the Bar," the lawyers' body said.
Mishra
said if Law Commission's "anti-lawyers recommendations" were not
rejected by the government, the lawyers will hold a protest march from the
Patiala House Courts to Rajghat in the national capital on May 2. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Thereafter,
he warned, rallies and 'jail bharo' campaign will be launched by the Bar
Council if the situation still remained deadlocked.
As per
the BCI, there are around 14.5 lakh lawyers across the country, as of December
2016.
"The
regulation and control of the legal profession and legal education is proposed
to be handed over to non-lawyers. Advocates will have to face disciplinary
proceedings conducted by people not at all connected with the legal
profession," the BCI Chairman said.The
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