department of eogms

EOGM For Amendment of Association Rules

3 April 2012 | Notices

Pursuant to the Requisition dated 10 January 2012 received from members of the Association and the previous Notice dated 16 February 2012, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Bombay Bar Association has been convened on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 5:15 pm in the Association premises to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without modification the following Resolutions amending the Rules of the Association:

I.   ADD RULE 5.15

“5.15 Notwithstanding anything contained in Rule 5.8, a member who was elected and has held the office of Standing Committee Member for two consecutive terms in that office shall not be eligible to offer himself for election to the office he has already held PROVIDED THAT any member shall be entitled to do so after a gap of one term from the date of his ceasing to hold such position as aforesaid AND PROVIDED THAT in the event of any Standing Committee member having ceased to be such Committee member as a result of his resignation and/or his cessation as provided in these Rules, he/she shall not be entitled to file a nomination as per this provision.”

II.I.   ADD RULE 8.5

“8.5 Any member of the Standing Committee who absents himself for three consecutive ordinary meetings shall cease to be a member of the Standing Committee and the Standing Committee will at the earliest induct another member by cooption to fill up the vacancy.”

Members’ attention is specifically drawn to Rule 14 of the Association Rules.

department of eogms

EOGM for Rescinding Previous General Body Resolution Regarding Condolence Meetings

3 April 2012 | notices

Pursuant to the Requisition dated 27 February 2012 received from members of the Association, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Bombay Bar Association has been convened in the Bar Association premises on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 immediately after the conclusion of the previous Extraordinary General Meeting convened on that day to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without modification the proposed Resolution rescinding the General Body resolution of 11 January 2012 by which it was decided inter alia not to hold condolence meeetings on the passing away of any of our members. The text of the resolution together with the detailed explanatory note is online....read more

Members’ attention is specifically drawn to Rule 14 of the Association Rules.

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Suggestions Regarding Unified REVISED High Court Rules: reminder

A few days ago, we informed members of the deadline (10 April 2012) for sending in their suggestions on the draft Unified Revised Rules prepared by the Justice Marlapalle Committee. A short note on the salient changes is now available online. This is for convenience only, given that time for this is so short.

Links:

• BBA Notice (17 March 2012) inviting suggestions
• HC Official notice inviting suggestions (pdf)
• Soft copy of Rules (HC Website; pdf)
• Soft copy of Rules (BBA Website; pdf)
• Short note on salient changes (pdf)

Again, as a reminder:

• As the Rules are divided into seven Parts, suggestions should be submitted to the respective Associations in separate envelopes for each Part, the Part number being mentioned on the envelope.
• Suggestions should be focussed on individual rules; general comments are to be avoided;
• Explanatory notes may be included.
• Suggestions may also be in regard to a recasting or a rewording of a particular rule.

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30 March 2012

If you're one of those forest-felling environmentally-insensitive types still subscribing to the Daily Board, all 400 pages of it (only about 100 trees a year), be warned that your subscription ran out yesterday.

If you want to persist in this unlovely conduct for the next year too, 1 April 2012 (today; no, it's not a joke) to 31 March 2013, we can't stop you. But we can make you pay for it, at these low, low prices:

	Part I Rate per annum	Part II Rate per annum
Members	Rs.5500	Rs.2000
Non-Members	Rs.6000	Rs.2500

(See the advantages of becoming a member? All you have to do is apply, wait for only 7 years for temporary membership, re-apply for permanent membership, wait another 7 years and then you can save FIVE HUNDRED RUPEES! What are you waiting for?)

We don't take cash. Cheques only, and make sure you sign them. Make them out to the BOMBAY BAR ASSOCIATION and deliver them from evil to the Association staff 10:00 am and 5:00 pm on any working day (that means a day when the Court is officially open, not the odd day between your 'international conference' trips to Santorini and Pattaya).

Payments must be made by 20 April 2012. If not, board delivery will cease. And our forests will be saved. Think about it.

department of collections

your money or your strife

30 March 2012

More bad news. Membership Subscriptions are for the year year 2012-2013 are also due at these low, low rates:

	Member	Amount Due (in Rupees)
1	Designated Seniors	Rs.2000/-
2	Permanent Members	Rs.1200/-
3	Temporary Members	Rs.450/-

Please pay, by cheque (a/a), with arrears (if any) before 30 April 2012. What if you don't? Prepare for the worst ...