‘Do Not Become Adjournment or Pass Over Counsel, Become Arguing Counsel Yourself’: Justice BV Nagarathna To Young Lawyer

Awstika Das

31 Aug 2023 3:10 PM IST

  • ‘Do Not Become Adjournment or Pass Over Counsel, Become Arguing Counsel Yourself’: Justice BV Nagarathna To Young Lawyer

    Supreme Court judge BV Nagarathna on Thursday stressed the importance of junior lawyers beginning to argue in court early on in their career. This remark was made during today’s court proceedings, when a junior lawyer requested a bench of Justices Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan to adjourn the hearing of a case, citing the ill-health of the ‘main counsel’. “You are there, so...

    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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