Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 108 · Decided 16 March 1999
Babu Verghese and ORS. v. Bar Council of Kerala and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 108 · [1999] 1 S.C.R. 1121
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1504/1999
- Decided
- 16 March 1999
- Bench
- S. SAGHIR AHMAD, D.P. WADHWA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
B Advocates Act, 1961-Section &4. and 10-A-Temi of office of State Bar Council-Extension under proviso to Section &4-Held, can be granted only before the expily of its miginal tenn-1he te1m cannot be extended by way of a resolution of the Bar Council of India after the expiry of the tenn extended was invalid-Also held on facts, that urgent action initiated under Rule 6 of the Bar Council of India Rules was not completed before the expiry of the tenn of the State Bar Council-Therefore, no action could be considered to have been taken under Rule 6, nor did the post tenn resolution
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