Bar Council rules should be followed by suspending license of advocacy from those in legislature
It refers to Bar Council of India (BCI) seeking views of lawyers working as legislators (Parliamentarians and MLAs) on their continuing legal-practice while being public-servants. BCI-rules clearly mention that not only public-servants but even private salaried persons are not allowed to legal practice. Supreme court of India in the year 1979 in the matter ‘Karunanidhi versus Union of India’ had made it clear that all legislators are public-servants with doctrine of master-servant or employer-employee not applicable on them. Since all other public-servants are not allowed to legal-practice, it is violation of Article (14) of the constitution to be partial in allowing legislators doing legal practice.
Also advocates cannot take benefit from both sides by taking salary from public-ex...









