Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh (Constitution and Conduct of Business) Rules, 1963
Advocate’s fees
1. Each Bar Association should lay down a minimum fee for giving professional advice, for drafting and for other miscellaneous work, suitable to the particular locality and no Advocate should work for less than the fixed minimum fee. Other fees are fixed by the rules made by the High Court:
Provided that an Advocate may for special reasons work without charging any fee at all.
2. Any fee in excess of the minimum or those fixed by the High Court should be fixed by agreement between the Advocate and the client, but once fixed no Advocate should attempt to demand an increase on agreed fees.
3. Each Bar Association may lay down the proportion of fees payable to a junior member of that Association when appearing in a case with a senior member of the same Association; the proportion of not less than one third of the senior’s fees is suggested as usually accepted.
4. Where a senior and junior are engaged in a case for the same purpose, it is the duty of both to see that both are paid and in case either is not paid, the other would be justified in refusing to work.
5. Each Bar Association may fix the nature of cases in which a senior and junior shall appear.
6. Every Advocate must keep a fee book in which he will enter all the fees received by him with sufficient details.
