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Bombay High Court rules against foreign firms in Lawyers Collective case
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Sadanand Naik
Dec 17 2009, 07:39 AMhttp://www.legallyindia.com/20091216347/News/Bombay-High-Cou...
It seems, the Judgement is based on the present statutes available in the country as to the practice of law by foreign law firms. Foreign law firms cannot practice law in India unless the government of India liberalizes the legal industry by making appropriate amendments to the present legislations.
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Dec 17 2009, 08:39 AMCopy of the judgement can be found here
http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/data/judgements/2009/OSWP81526...
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Dec 19 2009, 06:03 AMThe judgment represents the Indian Law as it stands today. India needs to adopt many changes to present legislations on the global perspective. Even the Advocate Act bars the practice of lawyers of one state in the other state unless he gets transfer his name from one state to other state. Where as in USA, a lawyer may qualify to practice in many states by passing the Bar exams and enroll before such states. In many countries the Law allows the foreign law firms to recruit Local Lawyers to practice in that country. India also can consider allowing foreign law firms on reciprocal basis where the Indian Lawyers are allowed to practice in such country after getting through in requisite examinations. UK allows Indian lawyers to practice as solicitors in England & Wales by writing requisite QLTT (Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test). States like California and New York allows Indian Lawyers to practice in such state by passing in Bar Exams and such other qualifications. American Bar Association and other Bar Associations in the United States have opined there is no unethical practice involving American Lawyers to outsource legal processes to India. Since the matter being so, what would come to the American and British mind is since the foreign lawyers are not allowed to practice any kind of practice and not allowed to set up their office in India why they need to outsource the legal work to countries like India. This would really slowdown the growth of LPO's in India.
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