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Yasaswi Gomes   19 August 2024

Invoice mandatory for lawfirm

Hi

Lawyers fee is 1,75,000

I paid 10000 advance and he took a sign on cash receipt but kept it with himself.

I paid the rest and I don't have financial evidence because

1. The bank account I transferred from was closed by my parents unsuspectingly.

2.  I transferred some amounts through cash deposits which. The receipt faded after many years and nothing is visible.

Lawyer frauded me saying I did not pay money, bar council asked for financial evidence 

1. Is it mandatory to have financial evidence? Won't the corrupted ci and si take my FIR if I don't have financial evidence?

My bias is:

A. How did he proceed with my case and filed the writ petition without taking money from me? 

B. Why didn't he gives me invoice which is mandatory as per law? Because invoice act mentions taken amounts and pending amounts.

C. Why didn't he send me payment reminder because settlements act 2007 defines payment system, operator, payment obligation. 

Are these reasons good enough to catch a fraud. 

(Lawfirms are exempt from GST registration hence gat invoice is not necessary. What invoice act is applicable?)

This has happened because my family paid the money this way on my behalf and did not foresee the fraud and did not take care of finance evidence.

 

Chances to win are high for me right? 

 



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 2 Replies

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     19 August 2024

These are the points of arguments and not pertaining to the law governing the law firm. 

In fact you have answers to your question in your own post. 

Hence you can argue them based on the reasons you believe. 

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Yasaswi Gomes   19 August 2024

Thank you for your support. 

It's cognisable offence as per invoice acts 

RBI doesn't approve a Payment system which doesn't have payment instructions. It's mandated in Settlements act 2007. Applicable all over India for all sorts of businesses. 

So the lawyer is running an illegal payment systent. 

 


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