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Supreme Court says it will not record appearances of lawyers who did not argue/appear

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Supreme Court says it will not record appearances of lawyers who did not argue/appear

The Supreme Court recently refused to schedule the presence of a lawyer at the order, saying she did not argue/appear even though the senior lawyer who argued the matter was retained by her.

The lawyer, a young woman, tried to reason why she wanted her appearance to be marked in front of a bench. Justices Bela M. Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma. She said: “I hired a senior lawyer. It’s a common practice (asking to be marked for appearance). The client would think: I didn’t show up.”

However, Minister Bela refused and added: “We will discontinue this practice (marking names of lawyers who did not argue).“

She added: “You should read our judgment on this. Why are we saying this. This only happens in the Federal Supreme Court. The registered lawyer must invariably be present. But they are not. The day would come when we wouldn’t even register their appearance if they didn’t show up.”

While giving judgment in the SLP’s ‘bogus’ case, the Bench observed that registered lawyers can schedule appearances only for those lawyers who are authorized to appear and argue the case on a particular day of hearing.

“These names will be provided by the Registered Advocate on each day of hearing of the case as instructed in the Notification (Official Circular dated 30.12.2022). If there is any change in the name of the arguing Advocate, it will be the duty of the Registered Advocate concerned to inform the Master of the Court concerned in advance or at the time of hearing of the case. The Officers/Masters of the Court concerned will act accordingly.”the sentence handed down by the Bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma he stated.

Earlier, a bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Rajesh Bindal had ordered that the online presence of only advocates be marked in the order in which they appeared or helped during the hearing.

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