India, Aug. 14 -- The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government and the Bar Council of India (BCI) to spell out the steps being taken or proposed to be taken to provide financial assistance to junior advocates, citing a Supreme Court order that described the first three years of practice as a "period of turmoil" that often forces capable and promising young advocates to leave the profession.

"We would like to make a point to the Respondents not to take the same adversely but take it affirmatively to consider the larger interest of the community of young advocates who enrol themselves," a division bench of Justices Milind N Jadhav and Nandesh S Deshpande, sitting at the Kolhapur bench, said.

The court was hearing a petiti...