Court directs Bar to frame rules to verify law degrees

Court directs Bar to frame rules to verify law degrees

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Madurai:09.11.2021

The Madras high court on Monday directed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to consider and pass orders on a representation seeking to frame appropriate rules and guidelines to verify the genuineness of law degrees obtained by people during the enrollment process, in order to prevent those without proper qualification from enrolling as advocates.

A division bench of justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and P Velmurugan passed the order while disposing of a petition filed by an advocate S Muthukumar from Madurai district.

In his petition, the petitioner stated that several people without any basic qualification are getting themselves enrolled as advocates and are cheating the courts as well as the people. He stated that the people who apply for law courses have started to obtain degrees without even attending the classes. Such practices would deteriorate the standards of the legal profession. Appropriate rules and guidelines should be framed by the Bar Council to verify the genuineness of the law degrees and to verify if an individual had undergone the course properly, he said.