Gurgaon lawyers on strike today
Those Gurgaon residents who have legal work to do today are likely to be disappointed as about 3,000 lawyers working at the district court in Gurgaon are on a strike against the Haryana state government's proposal regarding complaints against advocates.
THIS LARGE number of lawyers, who are likely to bring all sorts of legal work to a standstill, are on a one-day protest strike to mark their protest against a recommendation by the central government according to which an ombudsman body, comprised of judges will look into issues and complaints made against advocates.
“No lawyer will go to work at the court on Friday to support our counterparts,” a district court bar president Kulbhushan Bhardwaj told Hindustan Times.
No less than the Bar Council of India has given its go-ahead to the strike. The decision by Gurgaon lawyers to go on a strike was supported by the co-ordination committee of all the district bar associations of Delhi to voice concerns against the Legal Practitioners Bill, 2010 and Higher Education and Research Bill, 2010 - both of which have been proposed and under consideration.
The feeling amongst the bar councils is that the legal practitioners bill will strike at the core of their authority and undermine it. As far as the Higher Education and Research Bill is concerned - lawyers in Gurgao feel that the bill will empower allow bureaucrats to part of the legal education committee, which is basically made up entirely of the legal fraternity.
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