Validity of Rules 1 and 2 of the Bar Council of Gujarat ...

High Court Questions Fairness of Gujarat Bar Enrollment Rules Requiring Job Resignation Before Advocate Enrollment.

November 18, 2020

Case Laws     Indian Laws     HC

Validity of Rules 1 and 2 of the Bar Council of Gujarat (Enrollment) Rules - It is too much to say that a person desirous to get himself enrolled as an Advocate with the State Bar Council should be asked at its inception to give up any other vocation, business or job and only, thereafter, he can be enrolled on the roll of the State Bar Council. We are dealing with a matter, in which, as single mother has come before us saying that no sooner she is enrolled as an Advocate after clearing the Bar Council Entrance Exam, then she would file a declaration on oath that she has given up the job which she has as on date. The lady is in a helpless situation. Today, if she gives up her job being a single mother, and god forbid if she is unable to clear the All India Bar examination, then she would be left without any means of livelihood. - HC

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