The Indian government and the Bar Council of India (BCI) have once again resumed talks to open India’s legal market. On 24 June, the BCI circulated its draft rules for registration and regulation of foreign lawyers in India, 2016.
Among the objects and reasons for the rules, the BCI said “the demand for an open, responsive and receptive ‘legal services dispensation mechanism’ in India … is becoming severe day by day”. It also acknowledged that the growth in international legal services, globalization of legal practice and internationalization of the law was “increasingly becoming relevant to the growth of legal services and practices in India”.
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