1998 (9) TMI 689

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....ion from practice for one year with effect from the date of receipt of a copy of the order. The circumstances which led to the filing of this appeal need a brief notice : 2. Respondent is the complainant against the appellant - advocate. On 28.8.1991, he filed a complaint alleging that the appellant was doing "taxi business" and had at the relevant time four taxis in his ownership. It w....

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.... of the appellant shows that the appellant had himself enrolled as an Advocate with the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council in January, 1990. At the time when he so enrolled himself his family was doing taxi business and he himself also owned four taxis. The case of the appellant was that after his enrolment as an Advocate, he transferred all the taxis to different persons and handed over their possess....

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....ds thus : "Rule 48 - An Advocate may be Director or Chairman of the Board of Directors of a company with or without any ordinary sitting fee, provided none of his duties are of an executive character. An Advocate shall not be a Managing Director or a Secretary of any company." 8. A bare perusal of the aforesaid two Rules shows that an Advocate shall not personally engage "in any ....

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....ose taxis after his enrolment as an advocate, the mere ownership of the taxis cannot lead to any irresistible conclusion that he was engaged in "taxi business" after his enrolment as an Advocate. In his deposition, the appellant appearing as RW-2, stated that after the issuance of the licence of the Bar Council, he had started winding up his business in which he was engaged prior to his ....