Enrolment of Lawyers — Qualifications prescribed u/s 24 of the Advocates Act 1961and procedure

You clear your last LL.B. paper at a Mumbai college, the results go up on the notice board, and your family already calls you “advocate”. You are not one yet. Between a law degree and the right to stand up in the Bombay High Court there is one more gate, and it is guarded by a statute. Who opens it, what do they check, and what stops a person from being let through?

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A law graduate becomes an advocate only when a State Bar Council enters the name on its roll under the Advocates Act, 1961 — and s.24 lists who qualifies, s.24A lists who is barred, and ss.25–27 lay down the procedure.

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