Par panel for academies in states to train lawyers

A parliamentary committee has urged the Centre to help states set up training academies for advocates on the lines of state judicial academies to ensure that lawyers keep abreast with emerging trends in legal profession.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Personnel in its latest report tabled in the Rajya Sabha today said, the "Union Government may encourage all the states to set up Advocates Academy on the lines of State Judicial Academy for providing training to advocates in the states for an independent and integrated judiciary as envisaged under the Constitution of India."
It said the central government should provide financial assistance to states for establishing and nurturing advocate academies.

"In the meantime, the infrastructural facilities of State Judicial Academy may be utilised to provide training for advocates, particularly when these academies are not imparting training to judicial academies officers," the panel said.
The committee said the academies could provide research and resource material to young lawyers to keep them abreast of emerging trends in legal profession.
"It can also provide continued legal education by giving training by senior members of the Bar on latest rulings of Supreme Court and high courts," said the report.