The Advocates’ Act, 1961 consolidates and amends the law relating to the legal profession. It provides for an autonomous Bar Council in each State and a Bar Council of India consisting of members elected from State Bar Councils. The salient features of the Act are:
(1) the establishment of an all India Council and a common roll of advocates; (2) the integration of the Bar into a single class of legal practitioners known as Advocates; (3) the prescription of uniform qualification for the admission of persons to be advocates; (4) the division of advocates into senior advocates and other advocates; (5) the creation of Bar Councils with autonomous powers one for the whole of India and one for each State. Thus Bar Council of Kerala is a Statutory Body constituted under Sec. 3 (c) of the Advocates Act 1961.
The functions of a State Bar Council Sec.6( 1) of the Act are:
(a) to admit person as advocates on its roll; (b) to prepare and maintain such roll; (c) to entertain and determine cases of misconduct against advocates on its roll; (d) to safeguard the right, privilages and interest of advocates on its roll; (e) to promote and support law reforms; (ee) to conduct seminars and organise talks on legal topics by eminent jur
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