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The Advocates’ Act, 1961 consolidates and amends the law relating to the legal profession. It provides for an autonomous Bar Council in each State and a Bar Council of India consisting of members elected from State Bar Councils. The salient features of the Act are:
(1) the establishment of an all India Council and a common roll of advocates; (2) the integration of the Bar into a single class of legal practitioners known as Advocates; (3) the prescription of uniform qualification for the admission of persons to be advocates; (4) the division of advocates into senior advocates and other advocates; (5) the creation of Bar Councils with autonomous powers one for the whole of India and one for each State. Thus Bar Council of Kerala is a Statutory Body constituted under Sec. 3 (c) of the Advocates Act 1961.
The functions of a State Bar Council Sec.6( 1) of the Act are:
(a) to admit person as advocates on its roll; (b) to prepare and maintain such roll; (c) to entertain and determine cases of misconduct against advocates on its roll; (d) to safeguard the right, privilages and interest of advocates on its roll; (e) to promote and support law reforms; (ee) to conduct seminars and organise talks on legal topics by eminent jurists and publish journals and papers of legal interest; (eee) to organise legal aid to the poor in the prescribed manner; (f) to manage and invest the funds of the Bar Council (g) to provide for the election of its members; (h) to perform all other functions conferred on it by or under the Act; (i) to do all other things necessary for discharging the aforesaid functions.
It is also the function of the Council to constitute one or more funds for the purpose of giving financial assistance, to organise Welfare Schemes for the indigent, disabled or other advocates and giving legal aid or advice to deserving. Disciplinary Committees are constituted under Section 9 of the Act: Rule making powers are conferred under Section 15 of the Act. It is under this section, Bar Council rules are made. Schemes are framed by the Bar Council of Kerala under Rule 40, Chapter II Part VI of the Bar Council of India Rules, for giving loans to junior Advocates for purchase of books and grant to Bar Associations for development of Libraries. Schemes for giving financial assistance to advocates are also framed. Many advocates have availed these benefits. Legal aid rules were framed to give legal aid and legal advice to the deserving. At present, the Committee is constituted for the High Court only. The Government have passed the Kerala Advocates’ Welfare Fund Act 1980 which came into force with effect from 5-4-1981, to provide for the constitution of a welfare fund for the payment of retirement benefits to advocates and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This is the first legislation in India for the Welfare of Advocates. The maximum amount available from the fund is fixed at Rs. 10 lakh. The council propose to implement more welfare schemes for advocates in the State.

KYC guidelines

  1. Fill your enrolment number
  2. Enter the captcha security code
  3. Click proceed
  4. Fill the mobile number and primary email id
  5. click verify mobile
  6. An OTP will be sent to your mobile number.
  7. Enter the OTP and click verify button
  8. Fill the fields in the page – date of birth ,gender ,permanent address ,communication address, LLB registration number, LLB completion date, LLB university name, LLB college name, AIBE number , AIBE year, and practice place are mandatory.
  9. Click the submit button.
  10. A popup will be displayed showing success message –“You have successfully registered with us. Please check your mail for further instruction to access our services!”.
  11. An email confirmation is sent to your mail id
  12. click ‘activate your account’ in the mail you received.
  13. You will be directed to a page where you can set your password.
  14. After setting up your password, enter captcha and click activate account.
  15. You will be directed to a page showing success message
  16. Click login to access the advocate portal
  17. Enter your email and password and click submit
  18. You will login to advocate portal
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User registration guidelines for Public user

  1. Any public user coming to access the BCK public services should register using your email id and mobile number.
  2. Fill up the details including First Name, Last Name, Mobile Number, E-mail and Captcha
  3. Click Verify Mobile button
  4. OTP will be sent to the provided mobile number
  5. Enter the OTP and click Create Account
  6. An E-mail will be sent to the e-mail id provided
  7. Access the email and click Activate Account
  8. Set password for your account and note it down to make sure you will not miss it
  9. Account activated e-mail will be sent to the e-mail id provided
  10. Click Login to portal from the mail
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User registration guidelines for bar association user

An authorised bar association user representing any of the bar associations registered with BCK may register yourself to easily access and avail bar association services.

If you wish to register a new bar association with BCK, please contact the BCK office directly.

  1. Any bar association user coming to access the BCK services should register using your email id and mobile number.
  2. Fill up the details including First Name, Last Name, Mobile Number, E-mail and Captcha
  3. Click Verify Mobile button
  4. OTP will be sent to the mobile number provided
  5. Enter the OTP and click Create Account
  6. An E-mail will be sent to the e-mail id provided
  7. Access the email and click Activate Account
  8. Set password for your account and note it down to make sure you will not miss it
  9. Account activated e-mail will be sent to the e-mail id provided
  10. Click Login to portal from the mail
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