LAWS(CAL)-1995-9-12

ARUNAVA GHOSH Vs. BAR COUNCIL OF WEST BENGAL

Decided On September 26, 1995
ARUNAVA GHOSH Appellant
V/S
BAR COUNCIL OF WEST BENGAL Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Does the Bar Council of West Bengal which is a Statutory Body, have the jurisdiction to call upon the Advocates on its roll to cease their work and to desist from attending Court? Would such a call if given by 4 the Bar Council be binding on an Advocate ? Can the Bar Council take steps for penalising an Advocate who chooses to ignore such call given by the Bar Council?

(2.) Such grave and important questions have come up for consideration by this Court at the instance of four practicing Learned Advocates of this Court, who in the writ petition have challenged the resolutions of the Bar Council of West Bengal dated 3rd May, 6th May, 11th May and 13th May, 1994 and the jurisdiction of the Bar Council to give such a call.

(3.) By the resolution dated 3rd May, 1994 it was resolved by the Bar Council of West Bengal, inter alia, as follows :-"