Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has made NTS examination mandatory for the advocates to get practising license. PBC vice chairman Akhtar Hussain while addressing a press conference here on Friday said the decision has been taken keeping in view the frequent deterioration in quality education at law colleges. He said a letter has been sent to law ministry to introduce amendment in Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Act.

He further told media persons that PBC Law Reforms Committee had passed a resolution moved by a former LHC judge and member PBC Ehsan Bhoon for amendment to Suo Motu powers being exercised by the Supreme Court. He said in a Suo Motu case right to appeal should be given to aggrieved party/person. He said the committee also suggested amendment to rules to allow a litigant to engage counsel of his choice in review cases. The restriction of engaging same counsel is in violation of fundamental rights of a litigant and needed to be changed, he added.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2012