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Unit 3: Legal Profession in Nepal (10 Hours)
3.1 History of the Nepalese Legal Profession
3.1.1 Before 2013 B.S.
The pre-modern-scene: the dharma-and-the-king’s-justice (the no-organised-bar (the petitioners-unrepresented (the court’s-own-inquiry (the Muluki-Ain’s-era (the 1854’s-codification (the procedure-formalised (the advocate-still-absent)))))); The Rana-era’s-edges: the law’s-administration-centralised (the lawyers-marginal (the few-trained (the India-and-the-elsewhere-educated (the pioneers’-lore (the name-level)))) — the profession’s-pre-history: the law-existed (the profession-not-yet (the 1951’s-opening-the-watershed (the democracy’s-dawn (the profession’s-germination (the post-1951-development-the-verified-record’s-own-claim))))).
3.1.2 2013 B.S. – 2025 B.S. (1956/57 – 1968/69)
The NBA’s-birth: the Nepal-Bar-Association-established-21-December-1956 (2013-B.S.) (the verified-date (the profession’s-own-organisation-born (the lawyers-self-organised (the collective-voice-first)))); The early-operation: the without-formal-registration-first (the informal-years) → the 1963 (2020-B.S.)-registration (the HMG’s-registration-as-a-professional-organisation (the National-Guidance-Act-1961’s-framework (the verified-record (the formalisation’s-step)))); The era’s-character: the profession-emerging (the licensing-still-the-courts’-own (the no-independent-regulator-yet (the qualification-routes-varied (the experience-based-and-the-degree-based-side-by-side (the transitional-generation (the profession’s-walking-years)))));
3.1.3 2025 B.S. – 2050 B.S. (1968/69 – 1993/94)
The first-statute: the Legal-Practitioners-Act-2025-B.S.-(1968) (the profession’s-first-law (the practice-regulated (the licences-categorised (the pleaders-and-the-advocates-era’s-structure (the name-level (the act’s-own-scheme (the honest-functional-describe)))))); The era’s-institutions: the Supreme-Court’s-oversight (the enrolment-and-the-discipline-the-court’s-own (the judiciary-as-the-regulator (the pre-Council-era’s-design))) + the NBA’s-growth (the bar’s-expansion (the chapters’-spread (the districts’-bars’-formation (the movement-politics’-era (the 1990’s-people’s-movement (the bar’s-role (the profession’s-political-conscience-forged)))))); The landmark:
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