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Charu is Legal Correspondent for BW Legal World
The Bar Council Of India has now opened up the Indian Legal arena to foreign lawyers and foreign law firms as they will now be able to practice foreign laws, international arbitration matters and more under the Bar Council Of India Rules For Registration and Regulation of Foreign Lawyers and Foreign Law Firms In India, 2022.In respect of this development, Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) has formed a drafting committee including the heads to top tier law firms in the country.
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Bar Council of India (BCI) has recently framed new rules allowing the foreign lawyers and foreign legal practitioners to set up their practice in India. Since this has been a buzzing topic in the legal ecosystem of India ever since the news broke, there has been equal share of apprehensions about it.
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In this interview with BW Legal World, John talks about the recent rules framed by the Bar Council Of India allowing foreign lawyers and foreign legal firms to operate in India as well as the practices followed in the legal ecosystems of different regions of the world. He further elaborates the challenges a country may face when it moves on the journey of becoming an arbitration hub
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The Andhra Pradesh High Court bench comprising Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice R. Raghunandan Rao recently dismissed the writ petition filed challenging the minimum age fixation of 17 years to sit in NEET examination.
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The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha on Tuesday commuted the death penalty of Sundarrajan to imprisonment for 20 years. He has been convicted of murdering a 7 year old boy and the conviction has been upheld by the bench.
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The Supreme Court bench comprising The Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala recently directed that the withheld salaries of seven Patna High Court judges shall be paid. The court was hearing a petition which put forth that the General Provident Fund accounts of these seven judges had been closed.
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The Department of Empowerment of Persons With Disabilities in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) prepared a dashboard called “Manoashraya” before the Supreme Court on Monday. It was presented by Rajesh Yadav, who is the Joint Secretary in MSJE.
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The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala on Monday directed all the high courts in the country to set up online RTI portals within the period of three months to deal with the RTI Applications. The bench was hearing a petition that sought for establishment of online RTI portals for all high courts as well as district courts.
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The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala on Monday dismissed a petition seeking to register the live-in relationships. The PIL sought the central government to be directed to make guidelines to register live- in relationships and to make guidelines for the securing the couples in a live-in relationship.
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The Gujarat High Court division bench comprising Justices Vipul Pancholi and Hemant Prachchak imposed a cost of Rs.5000 on a man who filed a petition seeking custody of his girlfriend who is married to another man.
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