|About the Book
profession in India, second largest in the world,
has majority struggling for work and survival.
Law is a jealous mistress that calls for undivided
loyalty and unflinching attntion from her devotees.
Dry drudgery of desks' dead wood is the essential
requirement of an advocate aspiring to win laurels
in the profession.
genesis of the Advocates Act, 1961 is found
in the felt need for providing a uniform and
well-knit structure of legal profession which
plays pivotal role in strengthening the system
of administrative justice in the Country. It
is axiomatic that a properly equipped and efficient
Bar can play a pre-eminent role only in the
system of justice but also in the constitutional
government and rule of law. Realising the importance
of an independent/integrated Bar, the Indian
Bar Committee appointed by Government of India
in 1951 recommended, interalia the constitution
of an All India Bar Council, State Bar Councils,
A common roll of advocates and complete autonomy
to the Bar in the matters relating to qualification,
administration, discipline, etc. of the members
of the profession. In 1958 the Law Commission
in its fourteenth report on the Reform of Judicial
Administration endorsed the recommendation of
the All India Bar committee and urged the Government
to implement the same. In 1959, the Legal Practitioner
Bill incorporating the recommendations was introduced
in the Parliament which was subsequently adopted
and renamed as later adopted with the changed
name of Indian Advocates Act 1961.
Advocates Act, 1961 recognises only one category
present book is alucid and meticulously designed
treatise on Adovcates Act with comprehensive
commentary that fills in the gap for good and
reliable publication on this specialized Branch
of Law. The treatment of the subject is original
and systematic. All important citations of the
Apex Court and various High Courts have been
critically examined and incorporated till date
through out the book with analytical comments
right from the inception of the Advocates Act,
1961, to make this book reader friendly.
most valuable and precious feature of his master-piece
treatise is the extensive coverage provided
through a plethora of over 45 Allied Laws related
to the subject which enhanced the utility of
the book multifolds.
is hoped that this timely publication would
be found useful by the Bench, the Bar and all
concerned with this important branch of law.