{"id":12433,"date":"2016-06-27T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indialegalonline.com\/?p=12433"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:05:22","slug":"madras-hc-bar-association-goes-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/madras-hc-bar-association-goes-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras HC Advocates Association goes on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Madras High Court Advocates Association decided on Monday (June 27) to go on strike from Tuesday (June 28) in protest against the recent amendments made by the High Court to the Advocates Act. The changes were made to the Madras High Court rules under Section 34(1) of the Advocates Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The amendments were aimed at stopping lawyers from indulging in professional misconduct at various courts of Tamil Nadu. Under the new rules, the Madras High Court can debar unruly advocates from practicing in courts of the state, including the High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier, the power to debar advocates for professional misconduct in Tamil Nadu lay with the Bar Council of India and the Tamil Nadu Bar Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That seems to be the major bone of contention for the protesting advocates who feel that the High Court should not enter into the territory of the Bar Council and the Bar Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At a meeting on June 27, the Madras High Court Advocates Association decided to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abstain from all courts and tribunals from June 28<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Call a \u201drail roko\u201d protest at the Chennai Central Railway Station on June 29.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Call a \u201cburning draconian rules\u201d protest on July 1 at the Aavin Gate of the Madras High Court.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Advocates Association also demanded that the Bar Council of India and the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry should revoke the suspension of the advocates facing disciplinary proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>#MadrasHC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12437 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/indialegalonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG-20160627-WA0004.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160627-WA0004\" width=\"300\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG-20160627-WA0004.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG-20160627-WA0004-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12436\" src=\"http:\/\/indialegalonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG-20160627-WA0003.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160627-WA0003\" width=\"200\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG-20160627-WA0003.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG-20160627-WA0003-148x300.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India Legal Bureau<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madras High Court Advocates Association decided on Monday (June 27) to go on strike from Tuesday (June 28) in protest against the recent amendments made by the High Court to the Advocates Act. The changes were made to the Madras High Court rules under Section 34(1) of the Advocates Act. The amendments were aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246],"tags":[2299,1248,632,2301,2300,1290],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Madras_High_Court.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}