Advertisement And Soliciting By Advocates: Changing Times And Evolving Needs
- IJLLR Journal
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
Maitreyi Singh, BALLB (Hons.), NMIMS Indore
ABSTRACT
The profession of legal practitioners, particularly advocates has, since time immemorial, been treated as one with high standards of integrity and ethics. Jurisdictions across the world have attempted to maintain the same by placing restrictions and strictly regulating the conduct of legal practitioners and India remains no exception. The Bar Council of India, the body responsible for regulating the affairs concerning advocates, lays down certain rules for the conduct of an advocate which include a bar on advertisement of their “work” (Rule 36 of BCI Rules). This paper aims to analyse this strict prohibition upon advocates preventing them from advertising and soliciting their work. The scope of this paper includes the laws governing the same and their constitutional basis along with the history of the measure, it’s pros and cons and changing adaptations worldwide. The research paper also suggests possible courses of action and changes in the existing status quo to accommodate changing times and needs of India (considering our demography) as we head towards the path of becoming a superpower.
Keywords: legal practitioner, advocates, rules for conduct, work, advertising, soliciting.
