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Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2023
December 8 , 2023
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- The Bill has now been passed by the Lok Sabha in December 2023.
- It amends the Advocates Act, 1961.
- The Bill repeals certain sections related to touts under the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879.
- The 1961 Act consolidates the law related to legal practitioners and constitutes Bar Councils and the All-India Bar.
- The new bill aims at regulating the legal profession by a single act and seeks to target touts.
- The Bill provides that every High Court, district judge, sessions judge, district magistrate, and revenue officer (not below the rank of a district collector) may frame and publish lists of touts.
- Tout refers to a person who
- either proposes to procure or procures the employment of a legal practitioner in a legal business in return of any payment,
- or frequents places such as the precincts of civil or criminal courts, revenue-offices, or railway stations to procure such employment.
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