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title: "Supreme Court Clarifies: Advocates Can’t Claim Legal Representation Under Industrial Disputes Act"
date: 2023-11-21
author: "King Stubb & Kasiva"
url: https://ksandk.com/newsletter/sc-clarifies-advocates-cant-claim-representation-under-id-act/
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# Supreme Court Clarifies: Advocates Can’t Claim Legal Representation Under Industrial Disputes Act

Posted On - 21 November, 2023 • By - King Stubb & Kasiva

[[1]](#_ftn1)The Supreme Court of India has upheld that an advocate does not have the right to legal representation under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (“**ID Act**”), agreeing with the view expressed in a previously pronounced judgement[[2]](#_ftn2). The court was considering whether the provisions of the ID Act, which deal with representation by a specific lawyer and limitations thereon, needed to be revisited.

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[[1]](#_ftnref1) Civil Appeal No. 6586 of 2019

[[2]](#_ftnref2) Civil Appeal No. 766 of 1976

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