ALL ODISHA LAWYERS’ CONFERENCE IN FULL GUTSO

ALL ODISHA LAWYERS’ CONFERENCE IN FULL GUTSO 31/12/2011
ODISHA NEWS:

After a span of 19 years, the 40th All Odisha Lawyers’ Conference began at the BJB College ground in the city here on Thursday.

Organized by Bhubaneswar Bar Association with focus on the welfare aspect of lawyers, the conference has participation from 149 Bar Associations from all 30 districts of the state.


Lawyers have pressed the Government to address the problems of the needy and the poor among the fraternity and extend support to the Advocates’ Welfare Fund instituted by the State Bar Council.


The lawyers complained that though the State Government had assured to provide a matching grant to lawyers, to uplift the lawyers in Odisha, nothing has been initiated yet.


Adding more the lawyers said that, their longstanding demand of a land in Bhubaneswar for their own building was also unheard by the Government. Though the Law Minister last year had assured the land, but nothing has progressed since then.

Luminaries like Justices of the Supreme Court Ashok Kumar Ganguly, Ananga Kumar Patnaik and Deepak Misra, Justice Arijit Pasayat, chairman, Computation Tribunal, New Delhi, Justice AS Naidu, Member Green Tribunal, New Delhi, Justice RK Patra, chairperson, Odisha Human Rights Commission and Justice BK Mishra, Judge, Odisha High Court and such other eminent personalities from the legal and media sorority participated.

Justice Deepak Mishra led the discussion on ‘Role of Lawyers in the Present Legal System’ with advocates Bipin Bihari Rath, Jayant Das, Ramakanta Sahoo, Pratap Das and SN Das.

In the second session, eminent advocates Sailendra Patnaik, Bichitrananda Badjena, MM Patnaik, Jagannath Das and BK Mishra discussed on “Necessity of Amending the Land Acquisition Act, 1894’.

The two-day event is to discuss the ‘Role of Media in the Present Legal System’ with active participation from eminent personalities form media and legal domain, including Hara Prasad Das, former Vice-Chairman of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ved Sharma, CEO, A2Z News and Milan Kanungo, member, Odisha State Bar Council.


The conference, organized by the Bhubaneswar Bar Association, came to an end on friday.

SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF, THESE DAYS,
ODISHA