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Bar Council of Delhi issues voter list eligibility criteria for AIBE-qualified lawyers for February elections

January 15, 2026 9:01 pm

Bar Council of Delhi voter list, eligibility criteria: The Bar Council of Delhi elections are to be held in February this year.

The submissions were made on Monday by the BCD as ASJ Gupta heard the anticipatory bail plea of J Vasanthan, who hails from Tamil Nadu and has been accused of paying bribes of around Rs 1.5 lakh to get enrolled in the BCD.

160 FIRs in 2 years over ‘fake law degrees’, big nexus being run, Bar Council of Delhi tells court

December 16, 2025 3:07 pm

Vasanthan had argued that he had provided “original documents of (Uttar Pradesh-based) Indian Institute of Professional Studies” and not from Bundelkhand University.

Advocate Rudra Vikram Singh, president of First Generation Lawyers Association, said that nepotism in writ large in legal realm in India.

First generation lawyers body president interview: Favouritism, elitism marginalise us, says Rudra Vikram Singh

December 15, 2025 12:08 pm

Nepotism in Legal System of India: First Generation Lawyers Association president Rudra Vikram Singh says second, third generation lawyers have always had the privilege to become senior advocates, judges and to be government councils but the first generation lawyers have no such privilege.

Last year, the court had directed reservation of seats for women in the Delhi High Court Bar Association elections.

Lawyer seeks 30% seats for female candidates in 2026 Bar Council of Delhi polls, moves Supreme Court

November 28, 2025 11:50 am

Delhi bar association women quota, women reservation BCD 2026: Advocate Vani Singhal has sought to intervene in Fozia Rehman v. Bar council of Delhi in which reservation was sought for women advocates in posts of office bearers in the Delhi High Court Bar Association.

Bar Council of Delhi notice, BCD caution to lawyers, lawyers advertising on social media, legal services advertisement India, unethical legal advertising,

Lawyers using social media to seek clients? Bar Council of Delhi issues warning

August 07, 2025 4:21 pm

The notice added that advertising to solicit work using social media constituted unethical canvassing and infringed upon professional ethics and the dignity of the legal practice.

1.65 lakh lawyers, just 7,745 chambers: Space crunch prevails across Delhi’s lower courts

April 07, 2025 4:22 am

Between 2015 and last November, 98,500 new lawyers — mostly young — were enrolled in various bodies in Delhi’s lower courts, according to data gathered from the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD). However, the increase in the number of chambers has not been proportionate.