Common High Court For UTs Of J And K, Ladakh sify.com

According to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019, the judges of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir shall become the Judges of the common High Court from today. The expenditure in respect of salaries and allowances of the judges of the common High Court shall be allocated amongst the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union territory of Ladakh on the basis of population ratio, says the Act, , which was introduced in the Parliament by the Centre to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir with an Assembly and Ladakh without one.

As per the Advocates Act, 1961, the words “Jammu and Kashmir” shall be deleted on Thursday’s new clause shall be inserted for the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union territory of Ladakh to be known as the Bar Council of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. An advocate on the role of the Bar Council of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and practicing as an advocate in the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, may continue to be members of the “Bar Council of Jammu and Kashmir; and Ladakh”, notwithstanding anything contained in the Advocates Act, 1961 and the rules made thereunder. The persons other than the advocates who are entitled immediately before the date when the two Union Territories came into existence and after that will be recognized as such persons entitled to practice in the common High Court of Jammu and Kashmir or any subordinate court thereof, as the case may be.