�30pc lawyers in India hold fake degrees�

Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra yesterday revealed that 30 per cent of all the lawyers in India are fake holding fraudulent law degrees, Times of India reports from Chennai.
Disclosing this at a mega lawyers meet organised by BCI in Chennai, Mishra said the BCI, which is statutorily empowered to discipline errant lawyers and take action against them, was in the process of weeding them out.
In the BCI's estimation, about 20% were practising in courts without valid law degrees, he said, adding that a law minister of Delhi himself had a fake law degree.
Fake lawyers and non- practising law graduates were degrading quality of the profession, Mishra said. "We will filter bad and non- practising lawyers," he said.
The two- time BCI chairman also expressed concern over strikes and boycotts by lawyers, happening even for petty issues. Not just Tamil Nadu, even states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were victims of boycotts and strikes by lawyers, he said.
He said the BCI had proposed a three-tier disputes resolution mechanism which envisages committees at district, high court and Supreme Court levels. Any dispute will first go to the committee which will be headed by a district judge, then to the seniormost
judge of a particular high
court and at last to the apex court, he said.

 

�30pc lawyers in India hold fake degrees�

Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra yesterday revealed that 30 per cent of all the lawyers in India are fake holding fraudulent law degrees, Times of India reports from Chennai. Disclosing this at a mega lawyers meet organised by BCI in Chennai, Mishra said the BCI, which is statutorily empowered to discipline errant lawyers and take action against them, was in the process of weeding them out. In the BCIs estimation, about 20% were practising in courts without valid law degrees, he said, adding that a law minister of Delhi himself had a fake law degree. Fake lawyers and non- practising law graduates were degrading quality of the profession, Mishra said. We will filter bad and non- practising lawyers, he said. The two- time BCI chairman also expressed concern over strikes and boycotts by lawyers, happening even for petty issues. Not just Tamil Nadu, even states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were victims of boycotts and strikes by lawyers, he said. He said the BCI had proposed a three-tier disputes resolution mechanism which envisages committees at district, high court and Supreme Court levels. Any dispute will first go to the committee which will be headed by a district judge, then to the seniormost judge of a particular high court and at last to the apex court, he said.