It also sets standards for legal education and grants recognition to universities whose degree in law will serve as a qualification for students to enroll themselves as advocates upon graduation.
In exercise of those powers Bar Council of India made rules which were published in the official gazette on 6 September 1975.
This case arose because of the petition filed against the foreign law firms who had obtained permission from the RBI to set up liaison offices.
Even in the absence of this judgement, there was never any doubt that a foreign law firm cannot carry on any revenue-generating activities in India.
By stating that liaison offices of such firms carry on non-litigious practice, the Court does seem to have indulged in a degree of conjecture.