One of the oldest bar associations in the country, the Madras Bar Association (MBA), has come out in defence of 126 lawyers from Tamil Nadu that were recently suspended by the Bar Council of India..In an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee held today, the MBA resolved to request the BCI to revoke the suspension of the lawyers for carrying out protests against the disciplinary rules recently framed by the Madras High Court. The resolution has been signed by MBA President, Senior Advocate R Shunmugasundaram..The BCI had earlier issued a warning to the protesting lawyers to refrain from conducting boycotts in courts around the state. Following the Joint Action Committee’s decision to gherao the High Court campus yesterday, the regulator of the legal profession in the country was given little choice but to place the advocates on suspension..View the resolution passed by the MBA today:
One of the oldest bar associations in the country, the Madras Bar Association (MBA), has come out in defence of 126 lawyers from Tamil Nadu that were recently suspended by the Bar Council of India..In an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee held today, the MBA resolved to request the BCI to revoke the suspension of the lawyers for carrying out protests against the disciplinary rules recently framed by the Madras High Court. The resolution has been signed by MBA President, Senior Advocate R Shunmugasundaram..The BCI had earlier issued a warning to the protesting lawyers to refrain from conducting boycotts in courts around the state. Following the Joint Action Committee’s decision to gherao the High Court campus yesterday, the regulator of the legal profession in the country was given little choice but to place the advocates on suspension..View the resolution passed by the MBA today: