Right of Lawyers to Strike in India: Ex Captain Harish Uppal V. Union of India

LEGAL METHODS

EX- CAPT. HARISH UPPAL v. UNION OF INDIA:
Exceptions to the Right to Strike

Table of Contents TABLE OF CASES 2 TABLE OF STATUTES 2 Introduction: 3 Research methodology: 4 What is the right to strike and why do we need it? 5 Exceptions: 6 Case review 7 Issues: 7 Analysis: 8 Conclusion 11 Bibliography 13

TABLE OF CASES
CASES:
1. Communist Party of India (M) v. Bharat Kumar, (1998) 1 SCC 201, (Supreme Court of India). 2. Ex- Capt. Harish Uppal v. The Union of India, (2003) 2 SCC 45, Supreme Court of India. 3. Raghubar v. Union of India, AIR 1962 SC 263, 270 (Supreme Court of India). 4. See B.L. Wadehra (Dr) v. State (NCT of Delhi), 9 AIR 2000 Del 266. 5. T.K. Rangarajan v. Government of Tamil Nadu, 2003 (6) SCALE 84, (Supreme Court of India). 6. U.P. Sales Tax Service Assn. v. Taxation Bar Assn., (1995) 5 SCC 716, (Supreme Court of India).
TABLE OF STATUTES 1. The Advocates Act, 1961.

Introduction:
The right to strike is one of the fundamental corollaries of the right to freedom of association. This right of association provides individuals the means to organise themselves into groups for the purpose of upholding mutual interests, and in general terms, it has come to mean the right of workers to organise themselves into autonomous and representative groups for demanding their basic rights from their employees.
Workers dissatisfied with the existing conditions of work require a legitimate means of protest so as to sensitise the authorities towards their problems, with the expectation that these problems will be solved. One such common means of protest is the ‘strike’, defined by the Committee of Experts of the International Labour Organisation as “Any work stoppage, however brief and limited.” Almost every country in the world allows for some form of protest in context of the freedom of association. However, the right to strike is not unlimited. There are certain categories of workers who are not permitted to

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