Legal profession & Ethics
Unified Bar in Independent Bangladesh The Indian Bar Council Act of 1926 was passed with a view to unifying the different grades of legal practitioners and to provide some measures of self-government to the profession with a unified Bar. But, however, it did not give desired result in unification of the Bar as the power to enroll advocates continued to remain in the High Courts and the function of the Bar Council was merely advisory. After partition, The Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Act was passed in 1965. This Act for the first time made the legal profession autonomous but failed to unify the legal profession in true sense by keeping Mukhters outside the ambit of the Act. Mukhters and Pleaders were controlled by Subordinate courts and the advocates and Barristers were controlled by the High Courts. With the emergence of Bangladesh the Bangladesh Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Order, 1972 was issued by repealing the Legal Practitioner's and Bar Council A...