Chennai:
Madras High Court has stayed the order by a single judge which sought abolition of the three-year law degree courses and retain only five-year courses in the stream on par with other professional courses like medicine and engineering.
The First Bench of the court comprising Chief Justice S K Kaul and Justice T S Sivagnanam said that some of the directions by the single judge dilutes the role of Bar council of India as envisaged by the statute itself.
The judges also stayed the direction in which the single judge directed the Union government to consider entrusting the functions of the Bar Council of India (BCI) a statutory body, to an Expert Committee headed by a retired Supreme Court Judge.
“The only aspect that troubles the BCI is the entrustment of the functions to an expert body, when the BCI is seized of the matter,” the First Bench observed while hearing an appeal by Bar Council of India.
BCI appealed to first Bench after a single judge hearing a petition by S M Anantha Murugan passed 14 directions including the one against the Bar Council of India.
The Bench observed that, “The statutory provisions cannot be diluted through collateral proceedings.”
The First Bench also stated that in a public interest litigation unless a provision is struck down as violative of the Principal Act or Constitution of India, the direction will not be appropriate.
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