Team News Riveting
Patna, December 24
Leading lawyer of Patna High Court and former joint secretary of the Advocates Association Chhaya Mishra has demanded monthly stipend of Rs 5000 to budding lawyers in Bihar on the line of Kerala model.
In a communication to the Bar Council, she said the young lawyers with three years practice in the Bar and having an annual income of Rs 1 lakh should be given stipend from the Advocates welfare fund. Chhaya Mishra said monthly stipend would help attract law graduates to litigation, trial advocacy at the districts level also.
She suggested the proposed monthly stipend should be deposited directly to the accounts of beneficiary young advocates.
Chhaya Mishra recalled the Bar Council of Kerala has issued notification for monthly stipend to the young advocates below 30 years and enforced the government order issued in March 2018.
She demanded the Bihar State Bar Council should frame stipend rules and start extending benefits to the deserving lawyers from New year.
Chhaya Mishra quoted the Chief Justice of India, N V Ramanna for his speech at NALSAR Law university on December 19 in which he regretted few law graduates from the law schools are interested in joining litigation, let alone practice at the district courts.
She added that fascination to join legal firms would be less once budding lawyers are given stipends to attract them to trial advocacy. Bar council has sufficient fund for the stipends, the leading woman lawyer claimed.
