Advocates can practise in all courts
NOW Advocates can, as a matter of right, practise in all courts, tribunals and authorities.
Section 30 of the Advocates Act, 1961 reads as,
“Subject to the provisions of this Act, every advocate whose name is entered in the State roll shall be entitled as of right to practise throughout the territories to which this Act extends,-
++ in all courts including the Supreme Court;
++ before any tribunal or person legally authorised to take evidence; and
++ before any other authority or person before whom such advocate is by or under any law for the time being in force entitled to practise. ”
For some strange reason, this Section was not notified for the last fifty years. The Government has issued a notification last week appointing June 15 2011 as the date from which this section will come into force.