The Centre is finalising the
creation of two all India services Indian Judicial Service (IJS) and Indian
Legal Service (ILS) to fulfil its promise to create 15,000 additional courts by
2012 and meet the demand for services of legal professionals from various
departments of the Union and State governments.
We will create two all-India
services IJS and ILS mainly aimed at capacity building at the lower levels of
the judiciary and to provide professional legal advice to various departments,
Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily told TOI.
Though he was tight-lipped
about the time frame of the plan, the Minister said the IJS would help attract
talent from all over the country for
appointment at the sessions judge level.
The ministry’s Vision
Document prepared last year had promised the creation of 15,000 posts of judges
for two years to tackle the backlog of nearly 2.5 crore cases in the trial
courts. But with that apparently not working out, the Government is keen to add
to the number of nearly 17,000 trial court judges by creating the IJS.
Law leash on lawyers conduct
likely soon :
The Government has proposed
a law, the Legal Practitioners (Regulations and Maintenance of Standards in
Professions, Protecting the Interest of Clients and Promoting the Rule of Law)
Act, 2010, to oversee the conduct of more than one million legal professionals
and supervise legal education. It also envisages a Legal Services Board that
will establish a panel to represent the interests of clients of legal
professionals.
(Source : The Times of
India, dated 5-11-2010)
