The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a Bill that seeks to regulate the legal profession by targeting “touts”, with Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal asserting there should be no role of such persons in courts.
The Bill had earlier been cleared by the Rajya Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament. The Advocates (Amendment) Act, 2023 provides that every High Court and District judge can frame and publish lists of touts, who procure clients for legal practitioners in return for any payment.
Mr. Meghwal also said that the Union government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided that colonial-era laws, which have no utility, should be repealed. So far, 1,486 such laws have been repealed and some are in the process of being repealed, he added.
