Perturbed by a growing trend among lawyers, the supreme court has issued directions to the Advocates-on-Record Association and the Supreme Court Bar Association to assist it in preventing advocates-on-record from becoming "name-lenders".An advocate-on-record is supposed to be a person who seeks instructions from a client, drafts his petitions, and follows the judicial proceedings in the case. His or...
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About 3,000 advocates of Vadodara city and district, stayed away from court proceddings on Monday to oppose the imposition of professional tax on the lawyers. The advocates protested aggressively at the Bhagatsingh statue near Vadodara court on Monday.Professional tax imposed on advocates has irked the advocates of Vadodara city and district.Professional tax of Rs150 was primarily imposed on the advocates,...
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For the first time in the history of A.P. High Court, a practising advocate had to be removed from a court hall after a judge ordered the police to take him into custody when the court felt that the situation was going out of control.Justice L. Narasimha Reddy directed the DSP of Special Protection Force situated at High Court to produce Seetha Ram Chaparla, the advocate, on Thursday before the court....
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BANGALORE: Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran refused to react when presspersons met him on Monday evening on the premises of the Karnataka High Court to seek his reactions to advocates abstaining for the day.He said he could not speak on any matters to the press, least of all on the situation at the High Court.When he was again asked for his reaction, he said he was calm as always....
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Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs S. Suresh Kumar on Tuesday appealed to Karnataka High Court advocates to stage their protest peacefully in the future.“Advocates must chalk out a protest plan in advance and should not let things get out of hand,” he said, and asked the office-bearers of AAB to change their ways of protest. He had convened a meeting of Advocates’ Association of Bangalore (AAB),...
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AKOLA: The Akola Bar Association isholding a requisition meeting of all its 800 members on Thursday to discuss theill-treatment being meted out to advocates by judicial magistrate first classSangita Chandrakant Khalipe.President of the association RajeshDeshmukh has said that advocate Shirole has taken the lead in calling themeeting, with signatures of 131 advocates supporting such a meeting. The meetingwill...
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Chaos prevailed in the Karnataka High Court today when thousands of advocates, ignoring a court order, boycotted the proceedings in various courts in the city demanding Chief Justice P D Dinakaran to stay away from the court till he was absolved of allegations levelled against him.Unsavoury scenes were witnessed when some advocates barged into a court hall in the High Court premises when their colleagues,...
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Advocate General Subodh Kantak today categorically denied knowing or having met former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, now under the scanner of Enforcement Directorate.Mr Kantak was deposing before Panaji Judicial Magistrate First Class Edgar Fernandes during an inconclusive cross examination by social activist Advocate Aires Rodrigues on questions relating to his character, competence and conduct...
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CHENNAI: The Madras High Court onThursday held four top police officers, including then City Police CommissionerK Radhakrishnan, as "squarely responsible" for the February 19 police-lawyersclash in which several advocates and police personnel were injured.A division bench of the court said the state government couldexercise its discretion in the matter of suspending the officers pendingdisciplinary...
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All courts in Manipur came to a standstill due to a two-day strike called by the All Manipur Bar Association. The protest was against the alleged abduction and detention of advocate M. Ibotombi Sharma on October 25 by suspected militants.As there was no response from the abductors, the advocates decided to go on strike. Sources in the advocate’s family said that they had not received any communication...
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