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Legislators can practise law, says SC
Why in news?
- The Supreme Court held that there was no bar on legislators doubling up as lawyers.
What SC observed?
- The judgment by a Bench of Chief Justice of India comes as a great relief to many sitting MPs of both the BJP and the Congress who are practising lawyers in the Supreme Court and in the High Courts.
- More importantly, the Supreme Court said there is no conflict of interest if the MPs are allowed to practise law in the Supreme Court and in the High Courts before the very judges they have power to impeach.
- The conferment of power on the legislators (MPs) to move an impeachment motion against the judge(s) of constitutional courts does not per se result in conflict of interest or a case of impacting constitutional morality or for that matter institutional integrity,
Source
The hindu