Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana Bar Council has expressed strong opposition to the proposed amendments to Advocate Act under the Advocates (Amendment) Bill 2017.
The amendment bill proposes to implement a ban on strikes by lawyers and permission to foreign law firms to practice in India. The members of the Bar Council met Governor V P Singh Badnore at his residence here today and presented a memorandum to formally register their opposition to the proposed changed to the Advocates Bill.
Under the amendment, the Law Commission has recommended action again lawyers going on strike and allow entry of foreign law firms. Section of lawyers across the country has expressed strong resentment to the changes.
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has asked lawyers across the country to assemble outside courts and burn copies of the Law Commission’s recommendations. Seeking the support of parliamentarians, the chiefs of district bar associations have written to the MPs of their respective constituencies, urging them to protest against the proposals in Parliament. ET has seen a “memorandum of protest” written by a president of a district bar association to the area’s MP. It alleges that the proposal was draft.