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‘SC Advocates-on-Records Being Used Like Postmen’: Supreme Court Seeks Views Of SCBA, SCAORA & BCI To Deal With Misconduct Of AoRs

Awstika Das

7 July 2023 6:47 PM IST

    • ‘SC Advocates-on-Records Being Used Like Postmen’: Supreme Court Seeks Views Of SCBA, SCAORA & BCI To Deal With Misconduct Of AoRs

    The advocate averred that the high court dismissed his appeal for ‘extraneous reasons’ and imposed an exemplary cost to exact revenge.

    Advocates-on-Record in the top court are being used like postmen, Supreme Court judge BR Gavai remarked on Friday, during contempt proceedings against two advocates. The judge was implying that Advocates-on-Record are merely filing petitions drafted by other lawyers, without applying their minds regarding the pleadings. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and JB Pardiwala was hearing a suo...

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    Justice BR GavaiJustice JB PardiwalaSupreme Court Bar Association(SCBA)Supreme Court Advocate-on-Record Association
    Awstika Das

    Awstika Das

    Awstika Das, an alumna of the Faculty of Law at the University of Delhi, and the Department of International Relations at Jadavpur University, is a Delhi-based lawyer and a multimedia journalist. She works as a special correspondent covering the Indian Supreme Court. She also hosts a weekly legal news round-up segment on YouTube.

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