The Committee has advocated for the establishment of an independent authority called the National Council for Legal Education and Research to regulate higher education in law.
The Committee wished not to pursue its earlier recommendations on the possibility of increasing retirement age of High Court and Supreme Court judges and filling vacancies in the higher judiciary.
The BCI has been asked to mandate every lawyer to undertake at least one pro bono case annually to secure any relief fund from All India/State Bar Council.
The fate of two Polish opposition politicians became the focus Thursday of a running feud between the country’s new pro-European Union government and conservative opposition as the sides disagreed whether they can remain lawmakers. The weeks-old government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has moved to reverse policies of his predecessors that were deemed harmful and led to clashes with the EU, especially in the judiciary. As the lower house of parliament, or Sejm, convened on Thursday, officials and experts were dived on whether two senior Law and Justice lawmakers, who served in the previous government, can attend the proceedings.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has pardoned for a second time two imprisoned former members of the ousted nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party government convicted of abuse of office. Former interior minister Mariusz Kamiński and his former state secretary Maciej Wąsik are to be released from prison with immediate effect, Duda said in Warsaw on Tuesday. Duda had already announced almost a fortnight ago that he had applied to Justice Minister Adam Bodnar to initiate a pardon procedure. Bodnar r