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NLJ this week: India welcomes foreign lawyers

02 June 2023
Issue: 8027 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , International , Legal services
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India has opened its legal market to foreign firms. What opportunities have arisen as a result, and what restrictions apply? In this week’s NLJ, Rupa Lakha, partner, and Neeva Desai, trainee solicitor, at Charles Russell Speechlys, take a look at the significant potential for both Indian and foreign law firms.

They explain the restrictions regarding contentious and non-contentious work, note that the bulk of legal work is non-contentious, and highlight other changes afoot in the Indian legal market such as lawtech.

They write that the interests of Indian lawyers are unlikely to be disadvantaged by the liberalisation of the market, and note there will be more to come. The authors say: ‘It has been widely acknowledged across the Indian and English legal communities, that this is just a first step in a larger roadmap to liberalisation.’ 

Read more on the new opportunities here.

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NEWS
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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