Lawyers can now have their own websites. The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Monday told the Supreme Court that it has acceded to overwhelming demands from lawyers across the country to allow them to give basic authentic information about themselves to their prospective clients.
During a hearing on a petition challenging Rule 36 of the BCI that prohibits advocates from advertising their services, BCI counsel Sanjeev Sachdeva said the BCI and Sate Bar Councils have passed a resolution agreeing to amend the Rules of Professional Conduct and Ethics to enable lawyers to provide information regarding their address, standing, qualification and specializa- tion through websites.
Such information will have to be provided in the form prescribed by the BCI and respective State Bar Councils, Sachdeva told a bench headed by Justice B.N. Agrawal.
The court asked the BCI to amend rules with regard to websites and place it before it within 10 weeks.
Earlier, the BCI and the Centre had opposed the petition, saying the legal profession is not a trade.
Petitioner V B. Joshi has challenged Rule 36 terming it as archaic. Half-a-million odd lawyers, arbitrators and legal experts in India can offer their services to the world with the help of advertising, he contended.
Source: Hindustan Times 29-2008
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