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India opening legal service to UK lawyers: Introspecting a roadmap for 2030

Extensive stakeholder consultation and pragmatic measures to assuage the concern of Indian lawyers are necessary before changes are affected

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Mukesh ButaniTarun Jain
Amid the pandemic gloom, a news to cheer is the ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’ recently announced by India and the United Kingdom along with a 2030 Roadmap replete with milestones to be attained in the future. The relationship being reciprocal, barriers to market access are expected to be diluted by both the countries in the agreed areas of collaboration. Markedly, India appears to have committed “to work to remove barriers in the Indian legal services sector preventing UK lawyers from practising international and foreign law in India, a step that could enhance UK’s legal service exports to India and imports from
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