Weeding Out Fake Lawyers: Madras HC Issues Circular; No Court/ Tribunal To Accept Vakalat Without Advocate’s Complete Details [Read Circular]

The Madras High Court has issued a circular directing heads of all sections of the Registry to not accept any vakalatnama sans the enrolment ID, mobile phone number and complete residential address of the counsel as well as the advocate who has attested the vakalat.The circular issued by the Registrar General of the high court said, "All the heads of the sections of this registry, both in...