Summary:
But, in fact, an advocate is one who has had a standing practice in litigation," Justice Dash observed. Any person having a licence granted by the Bar Council is technically treated as an advocate. No advocate member of the proposed committee should be a member of any political party.The interim order further fixed the last week of January for listing of the matter for considering the report of the committee. The state government was to form the committee under the chairmanship of a retired high court judge within seven days and submit a report within two months from the date of issue of the order. CUTTACK: The state government is yet to comply with an Orissa high court order to constitute a committee to suggest ways, means and modalities to check the recurrence of incidents such as the one that led to a strike by lawyers that lasted 78 days.The direction was issued on November 14..