Ensure good lawyers join profession: Supreme Court

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Bar Council of India to set in motion legal reforms to ensure quality of lawyers joining the legal profession. A Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Uday Lalit observed that the BCI should step in and urgently reform the already over-crowded legal profession by ens-uring stringent checks right at the entry stage.

The CJI observed, “we can’t have free riders, half-baked lawyers when people trust them with life, liberty.” The Bench was hearing of bunch of petitions challenging the introduction of All India Bar examination before they are enrolled as advocates. On Tuesday the CJI observed that such an examination cannot be conducted without a statutory law.