Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 153

153. Inserted vide Notification of the Pakistan Bar Council dated 16-11-2015 96 Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976

(3)applicants who after having been called to the Bar in England have completed a full one year training with a senior counsel in England which training thereafter entitled them to appear independently in Courts in England.

(4)applicants who after having been enrolled as practicing lawyers in any place not within Pakistan, have to the satisfaction of the Enrolment Committee of the Bar Council concerned, practiced there for full one year. 108-J. The Provincial Bar Council 154[or the Islamabad Bar Council, as the case may be,] may refuse enrolment to a person otherwise qualified on the ground of his removal from the roll of Advocates or legal practitioners of any country or the pendency of criminal proceedings involving moral turpitude or proceedings for professional misconduct against him in any country. 108-K. All cases in which the degree on the basis of which application for enrolment has been submitted is a degree recognized under Section 26(1)(c)(iii) of the Act and all cases wherein proceedings have been taken against the applicant for enrolment in any country whether criminal proceedings or proceedings for professional misconduct, shall be placed before the Provincial Bar Council [or the Islamabad Bar Council as the case may be,] for appropriate action before they are sent to the Enrolment Committee. The Provincial Bar Council 155[or the Islamabad Bar Council, as the case may be] may inter alia, allow the enrolment of the applicant subject to the passing of such examination as it may think proper to provide. 108-L. (1) No person shall practice as an Advocate unless he is a member of a Bar Association of the place at which he ordinarily practices, which association has been recognized under the rule next following.

(2)It will be sufficient compliance with the requirement of the preceding clause if within six months of being enrolled as an advocate a person applies for being admitted as a Member of a Bar Association in the district in which he intends to practice ordinarily and his application has not been dismissed.

(3)The certificate of enrolment of a person who has not applied for being admitted as member of a Bar Association within six months of his enrolment as provided above shall stand automatically suspended.

(4)Every advocate whose application for being admitted as a member of a Bar Association has been dismissed by the Bar Association shall have a right to appeal to the Provincial Bar Council 156[or the Islamabad Bar Council as the case may be] and a further right of appeal to the Pakistan Bar Council. The appeal shall be filed within two months of the communication to him of the order appealed against. The appellate authority shall have jurisdiction to grant a stay of the operation of the order passed against the advocate and may for sufficient cause undone the delay in filing of the appeal.

(5)In case the name of an advocate is removed from the roll of members of a Bar Association he shall have the like remedies as he would have if his application for admission as a member of a Bar Association was dismissed and the appellate authorities shall have similar powers. 108-M. (1) Any association of advocates ordinarily practicing at a particular place except the Association at the national level, may apply to the Provincial Bar Council 136[or the Islamabad Bar Council as the case may be] for recognition as a Bar Association to which these rules apply. The application shall be filed by the President or Secretary of the Association.