P&H; Upholds 8‑Year Membership Rule In Bar Assocation Elections, Dismisses Plea Against Rejection Of Nomination For Vice-President
High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging High Court Bar Association Election Committee’s decision declaring her ineligible to contest for the post of Vice-President. Governing rule requiring a minimum of eight years’ membership with the Association applies and had not been challenged.
Election process was initiated under the Bar Associations (Constitution and Registration) Rules under which she believed five years of practice sufficed. She also alleged arbitrariness, lack of transparency, non-availability of rules in the public domain, and that the “rules of the game” were altered midstream when the Election Committee relied on the Association’s 2018 amended Rules to...
