Manan Kumar Mishra

The Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra on Wednesday wrote to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and requested him to grant holiday in all courts of the country on the occasion of Ram Mandir's inauguration on January 22.

The Supreme Court asked senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra to approach the Ministry of Finance within two weeks with the representation on the issue.

A team from the Bar Council of India - the regulatory body of lawyers - met with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra as part of its efforts to resolve the unprecedented crisis that hit the judiciary after four most senior judges of the Supreme Court took him on in public on Friday. Bar Council chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said the matter will be r...

Lawyers all over India will abstain from work on March 31 to protest against a proposed bill that bars advocates from going on strike. Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said the proposed amendments by the Law Commission in the Advocates Act were "draconian, anti-lawyer, unconstitutional, undemocratic and anti-people".

Thirty per cent of lawyers in the country are fake, possessing 'fraudulent' law degrees or non-practising persons, and were degrading the profession, Bar Council of India Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has said.

The derogatory comments about women made by two lawyers in the documentary 'India's Daughter' - banned in India and telecast by the BBC last night - have sparked outrage. Fellow lawyers want their licences revoked and people are demanding, in hundreds of posts on social media, that they be punished.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra on Wednesday wrote to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and requested him to grant holiday in all courts of the country on the occasion of Ram Mandir's inauguration on January 22.

The Supreme Court asked senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra to approach the Ministry of Finance within two weeks with the representation on the issue.

A team from the Bar Council of India - the regulatory body of lawyers - met with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra as part of its efforts to resolve the unprecedented crisis that hit the judiciary after four most senior judges of the Supreme Court took him on in public on Friday. Bar Council chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said the matter will be r...

Lawyers all over India will abstain from work on March 31 to protest against a proposed bill that bars advocates from going on strike. Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said the proposed amendments by the Law Commission in the Advocates Act were "draconian, anti-lawyer, unconstitutional, undemocratic and anti-people".

Thirty per cent of lawyers in the country are fake, possessing 'fraudulent' law degrees or non-practising persons, and were degrading the profession, Bar Council of India Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has said.

The derogatory comments about women made by two lawyers in the documentary 'India's Daughter' - banned in India and telecast by the BBC last night - have sparked outrage. Fellow lawyers want their licences revoked and people are demanding, in hundreds of posts on social media, that they be punished.