Overview
No rule nor any statutes of the law prohibits the lawyer to practice as a civil or criminal lawyer. Or not suppressed him to choose either of the two. In India, every lawyer can represent the case (criminal, civil) in any respective
court of India.
The requirements to deal with the specific case either civil or criminal or any other than this is the knowledge related to that nature of the case. As an example, if one is having a criminal case then he must
have a good knowledge of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and CrPC. And if the case is civil then it
must know the civil laws related to the case.
Hence if one has the required knowledge of that case subject, the case represents the case in any of the related courts. To know the detail –
Civil lawyer (civil law)
Civil law is the set of rules and regulations which help in resolving disputes of a civil nature. This means the cases
other than the criminal matters are under civil law. And civil law in India is governed by the code of civil procedure 1908, this is a procedural law about the civil proceedings of the nations. And any person having a valid law degree and registered by the Bar Council of India
is capable to present his case in court.
Criminal lawyer (criminal law)
All the crimes which are punishable under the
Indian Penal Code
in India will be considered criminal and all the criminal-related statutes are governed in India by the IPC and
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). And all the valid lawyers who are dealing with such cases are called to be criminal lawyers.
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