State Bar Council Can’t Summarily Reject Enrollment Application Sans BCI Opinion: Madras HC [Read Order]

The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has held that State Bar Council cannot summarily dismiss an enrollment application without referring the application for opinion to the Bar Council of India.The high court was hearing a writ petition challenging the order of Bar Council of Tamil Nadu by which it summarily rejected the application of K. Periyasamy on the ground that he had not disclosed...