Plea for strict verification to weed out fake advocates
The Hindu
An advocate has moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and police authorities to ensure that there is a strict verificatio
An advocate has moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and police authorities to ensure that there is a strict verification process in place to weed out fake advocates and maintain the dignity and decorum of the legal profession. A Division Bench of Justices M. Duraiswamy and K. Murali Shankar ordered notice to the Bar Council and police authorities on the petition filed by S. Muthukumar of Madurai. The petitioner said the standard of the legal profession was deteriorating. If this went unchecked it would affect judicial institution. There was a need to frame proper guidelines to verify the antecedents of advocates, he said.
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