IS FAKE DATA FILLED TO GET SENIOR
ADVOCATE POST FROM HIGH COURT?
LEGAL AID WORK OF CANDIDATES ARE IN
SUSPICIOUS
Final Status of MOLAW/R/2016/50857
Applicant Name
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SK Shrivastava
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Date of receipt
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04/10/2016
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Request Filed With
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Department of Legal Affairs
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Text of Application
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Senior advocates are appointed by
various high court. These senior advocates have to provide details of legal
aid work during application.
RTI Question 1. Guidelines/Rule to provide legal aid work to citizens free of cost by senior advocate (Copy) 2. Guidelines/Rule to provide legal aid work to citizens free of cost by any advocate (Copy) 3. Copy of application forms submitted for senior advocates (appointed in 2015) with file noting & enclosures at Bombay High Court. |
Request document (if any)
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Status
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RTI
REQUEST RECEIVED as on 04/10/2016
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Date of Action
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04/10/2016
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THE ADVOCATES ACT, 1961
16. Senior and other advocates.—
(1) There shall be two classes of advocates, namely, senior advocates and other advocates.
(2) An advocate may, with his consent, be designated as senior advocate if the Supreme Court or a High Court is of opinion that by virtue of his ability 1[standing at the Bar or special knowledge or experience in law] he is deserving of such distinction.
(3) Senior advocates shall, in the matter of their practice, be subject to such restrictions as the Bar Council of India may, in the interest of the legal profession, prescribe.
(4) An advocate of the Supreme Court who was a senior advocate of that Court immediately before the appointed day shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a senior advocate: 2[Provided that where any such senior advocate makes an application before the 31st December, 1965 to the Bar Council maintaining the roll in which his name has been entered that he does not desire to continue as a senior advocate, the Bar Council may grant the application and the roll shall be altered accordingly.]