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BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA RULES, 1975

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date for hearing and despatch and service of the notices on the parties of the Advocates or the Attorney General or the Additional Solicitor General or the Advocate General as the case may be, of statements of petitions filed and/ or the order thereon and of other proceedings in the matter before the Committee.
       11. (1) If in any enquiry pending before the Disciplinary Committee, the complainant dies and there is no representative who willing to conduct the case on his behalf the Disciplinary Committee may, having regard to the allegations made in the complaint and the evidence available, make a suitable order either to proceed with the enquiry or to drop it.
       (2) (a) In the case of an enquiry against only one Advocate, on his death the Disciplinary Committee shall record the fact of such death and drop the proceedings.
           (b) Where the enquiry is against more than one Advocates, on the death of one of them, the Disciplinary Committee may continue the enquiry against the other Advocates unless it decides otherwise.
       (3) No Disciplinary enquiry shall be dropped solely by reason of its having been withdrawn, settled of otherwise compromised, or that the complainant does not want to proceed with the enquiry.
       12. Unless otherwise permitted, counsel appearing before any of the Disciplinary Committee of the State Bar Council or Bar Council of India shall appear in court dress.
       13. The Council may from time to time issue instructions on any of the matters provided for in these rules.
       14. (1) The finding of the majority of the members of the Disciplinary Committee shall be the finding of the Committee. The reason given in support of the finding may be given in the form of a judgement, and in the case of a difference of opinion, any member dissenting shall be entitled to record his dissent giving his own reason. It shall be competent for the Disciplinary Committee to award such costs as it thinks fit.
       (2) The Registrar of the Disciplinary Committee shall send free of charge to each of the parties in the proceedings, a certified copy of the final order of judgement as set out in Rule 36 in this Chapter.
       (3) The date of an Order made by the Disciplinary Committee shall be the date on which the said Order is first received in the office of the Bar Council after it has been signed by all the members thereof. For the purpose of limitation the date of the Order shall be the date on which the contents of the Order duly signed as aforesaid are communicated to the parties affected thereby.
      15. Save as otherwise directed by the Disciplinary Committee or the Chairman thereof, certified copies of the records of a case pending before the Disciplinary Committee may be granted to the parties or to their counsel on an application made in that behalf and on payment of the prescribed fee. .
       16. (1) The Secretary of a State Bar Council shall send to the Secretary of the Bar Council of India quarterly statements of the complaints received and the stage of the proceedings before the State Bar Council and Disciplinary Committees in such manner as may be specified from time to time. '
       (2) The Secretary of the Bar Council of India may however call for such further statement and particulars as he considers necessary.
       17. (1) The Secretary of every State Bar Council shall furnish such particulars and send such statements as may be considered necessary by the Secretary of the Bar Council of India for purposes of Section 36B of the Act and send all the records of proceedings that stand transferred under the said Section.


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