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Registration as lawyer while in service

(Querist) 15 April 2012 This query is : Resolved 
Please educate me whether a person who has completed his LL.B. course and now working in a public limited company, can get himself registered as an Advocate? If yes, What formalities are required to be completed?

If not, why?

However, if he want to himself registered only as an Advocate for the seniority point of view and will start his practice as an Advocate only and only after resigning/ retirement of his present job.

Regards,

Y.K. Gupta
Shonee Kapoor (Expert) 15 April 2012
No he can not, as the registration as a member of bar requires that you should not be doing any other job/ business.

Regards,

Shonee Kapoor
harassed.by.498a@gmail.com
Devajyoti Barman (Expert) 15 April 2012
No he can not.
Deepak Nair (Expert) 16 April 2012
You can register yourself as an advocate only after resigning from your current job.
An advocate is barred from doing job/business.
Raj Kumar Makkad (Expert) 16 April 2012
He cannot do so because of the provisions of Advocates Act, 1961.
R.K Nanda (Expert) 16 April 2012
No, he cannot register as an advocate.
M/s. Y-not legal services (Expert) 16 April 2012
yes.. he can cant..

because an advocate can not involve him/her self with any other income sources apart from court practice..

-tom-
Guest (Expert) 16 April 2012
Not eligible. Not a question of seniority, but registration is meant for practising as a lawyer, not for those, who are engaged in service, business or any other profession.
C. P. CHUGH (Expert) 16 April 2012
Please refer to rule 43 of the Rules Prescribed by Bar Council of India under Advoates Act. The same is reproduced below:

It requires to give a notice in 90 days of joing of any service or engaging in any avocation inconsistent with the practice of law failing which disciplinary action could be initiated againt him. The rules further provide that those already in service or in business are not entitled to be enrolled.


"43. An advocate who has been convicted of an offence mentioned under section 24A of
the Advocates Act or has been declared insolvent or has taken full time service part time
service or engages in business or any avocation inconsistent with his practicing as an advocate
or has incurred any disqualification mentioned in the Advocates Act or the rules made
thereunder, shall send a declaration to that effect to the respective State Bar Council in which
the advocate is enrolled, within ninety days from the date of such disqualification. If the
advocate does not file the said declaration or fails to show sufficient cause for not filing such
declaration provided thereof, the Committee constituted by the State Bar Council under rule
42 may pass orders suspending the right of the advocate to practice :"
Raj Kumar Makkad (Expert) 17 April 2012
Now the query should be regarded as resolved finally.


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