{"id":6909,"date":"2025-03-18T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T02:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:17:47","slug":"what-is-the-bar-council-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-bar-council-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Council of India (BCI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bar Council of India Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Bar Council of India (BCI) recently issued a strict warning against &#8216;unethical&#8217; legal advertising and misleading social media promotions leading to professional misconduct by advocates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Bar Council of India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>statutory body<\/strong> created by Parliament to regulate and represent the Indian bar.<\/li>\n<li>It was established under the <strong>Advocates Act, 1961,<\/strong> based on the recommendations of the All India Bar Committee.<\/li>\n<li>Its main objective is <strong>safeguarding the rights, interests, and privileges of advocates <\/strong>throughout India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bar Council of India Functions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It performs the <strong>regulatory function<\/strong> by <strong>prescribing standards of professional conduct<\/strong> and etiquette and by exercising <strong>disciplinary jurisdiction <\/strong>over the bar.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>sets standards for legal education<\/strong> and <strong>grants recognition to Universities <\/strong>whose degrees in law will serve as qualification for enrolment as an advocate.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>conducts the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) to grant a &#8216;Certificate of Practice&#8217; to advocates<\/strong> practising law in India.<\/li>\n<li>BCI also <strong>funds welfare schemes for economically weaker<\/strong> and <strong>physically handicapped advocates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>recognizes on a reciprocal basis foreign qualifications in law<\/strong> obtained outside India for admission as an advocate under this Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bar Council of India Composition<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It comprises <strong>members elected from each State Bar Council,<\/strong> the <strong>Attorney General of India<\/strong>, and the <strong>Solicitor of India<\/strong>, who serve as members automatically.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The members of the State Bar Councils are elected for five years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Council has the <strong>power to choose its own Chairman and Vice-Chairman<\/strong> from among its members, and they serve for two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bar Council of India FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. How many members are in the Bar Council of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Bar Council of India consists of 18 Members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Is Bar Council of India a statutory body?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Yes, the Bar Council of India (BCI) is a statutory body established under the Advocates Act, 1961<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the All India Bar Examination (AIBE)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is a certification exam conducted twice a year by the Bar Council of India for law graduates willing to start practice as Lawyer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/top-stories\/bci-prohibits-advocates-using-actors-influencers-for-promotion-cautions-against-soliciting-legal-work-through-social-media-286663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bar Council of India (BCI) is a statutory body created by Parliament to regulate and represent the Indian bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}