The Bar Council being a statutory body to regulate the functioning of lawyers must weed out the corrupt elements from the profession, Supreme Court judge Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, said on Saturday.
He was addressing lawyers in the National lawyers conference organised at the auditorium of the Bar council of Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh. The National lawyers Conference, organised by Punjab and Haryana Bar Council and Bar Council of India was presided by Manan Kumar Mishra, Chairman Bar council of India.
Justice Goel was the Chief Guest at the conference. legal luminaries Justice SS Saron, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High court as a guest of honour. Justice Varinder Singh, Chief Justice of High Court Jharkhand and Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal, Justice Mahesh Grover, Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice H.S. Sidhu, Justice Haripal Verma, Justice Raj Mohan Singh, Judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court were also present in the conference.
The Judges spoke widely on the subject of legal education and emphasised on the improvement of infrastructure and faculty of the law colleges. Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel highlighted the problems of the system and gave suggestion to improvise the legal system through the constructive participation of lawyers.
Expressing a need to bring a thorough change in the process of enrollment of lawyers, he suggested that lot of responsibility is there on the lawyer who appears before the court and the need of the hour is that lawyers with clean image and true to the system should join the profession. He emphasized on the ethic and further stated that discipline is necessary in the lawyer to be successful.
Rajat Gautam, chairman of the Bar council of Punjab & Haryana highlighted the problems of locating the black sheep in the profession. He highlighted that due to mushrooming of various law colleges in Bihar and UP, the task of Bar Councils has become really difficult.