New Delhi: Supreme court Top notch lawyers pushed on Monday – AM Singhvi, Mukul Rohatgi And Kapil SibalEarning crores of rupees every month – to give opportunity to junior advocates to gain experience by arguing before the Supreme Court to leave the field during the summer vacations.
When Sibal referred a mining company’s petition for urgent hearing, a vacation bench of Justice Ajay Rastogi And wife. Nagaratna Said, “Don’t you think there is a good number of lawyers (juniors) who can persuade judges to be listed immediately, that too during leave?”
Sibal agreed, saying he was in favor of mentioning matters for immediate listing of juniors and giving them an opportunity to debate matters during the leave. “But what to do? There are a lot of dharnas outside my house (customers insist that he argue their cases). He said.
Rohatgi had to be persuaded, who was known to live in idyllic places away from Delhi and still argued through video conference. Justice Rastogi said, ‘Why not give a chance to juniors, if you are busy somewhere else? Determined to give a chance to the juniors, the bench used an indirect method and said, “We are sitting in the court. Why don’t you appear before us physically?”
The senior advocate is under such pressure from the client that instead of agreeing to hand over the matter to a junior, Rohatgi said he would return to Delhi a day later and appear in court. The bench fixed the matter for hearing on Wednesday.
At last it was Singhvi’s turn. When requested, Singhvi said, “I am in favor of the suggestion of the bench, provided that a uniform rule is made by the court that no senior advocate shall be allowed to argue during leave.” “It should be a self-rule and popular senior advocates should exercise self-restraint,” the bench said.
However, the bench insisted that Singhvi appeared before the court to argue the matter and fixed the matter for hearing on Tuesday.
justice NV Ramana, within two months of being appointed as the CJI, had echoed similar sentiments on August 21 last year. He had said that to ensure parity between the senior advocates and the juniors, arrangements have been made for the immediate list of cases to be mentioned before the registrar. “We don’t want to give any special priority to seniors, and don’t want to deprive juniors of their opportunities. So this system was created, where everyone can mention before the registrar,” he said.
Senior advocates were barred from mentioning cases for immediate listing by the then CJI Dipak Misra in August 2017 and only advocate-on-record, a special category of advocates qualified to file cases in the SCs, were allowed to mention cases. was allowed. This was later extended to junior advocates, but the seniors pushed their way in and the system failed.
attorney general KK Venugopali is the only exception. He never argued a case before a vacation bench, preferring to travel to foreign places during court holidays and leave the ground open for his juniors.
When Sibal referred a mining company’s petition for urgent hearing, a vacation bench of Justice Ajay Rastogi And wife. Nagaratna Said, “Don’t you think there is a good number of lawyers (juniors) who can persuade judges to be listed immediately, that too during leave?”
Sibal agreed, saying he was in favor of mentioning matters for immediate listing of juniors and giving them an opportunity to debate matters during the leave. “But what to do? There are a lot of dharnas outside my house (customers insist that he argue their cases). He said.
Rohatgi had to be persuaded, who was known to live in idyllic places away from Delhi and still argued through video conference. Justice Rastogi said, ‘Why not give a chance to juniors, if you are busy somewhere else? Determined to give a chance to the juniors, the bench used an indirect method and said, “We are sitting in the court. Why don’t you appear before us physically?”
The senior advocate is under such pressure from the client that instead of agreeing to hand over the matter to a junior, Rohatgi said he would return to Delhi a day later and appear in court. The bench fixed the matter for hearing on Wednesday.
At last it was Singhvi’s turn. When requested, Singhvi said, “I am in favor of the suggestion of the bench, provided that a uniform rule is made by the court that no senior advocate shall be allowed to argue during leave.” “It should be a self-rule and popular senior advocates should exercise self-restraint,” the bench said.
However, the bench insisted that Singhvi appeared before the court to argue the matter and fixed the matter for hearing on Tuesday.
justice NV Ramana, within two months of being appointed as the CJI, had echoed similar sentiments on August 21 last year. He had said that to ensure parity between the senior advocates and the juniors, arrangements have been made for the immediate list of cases to be mentioned before the registrar. “We don’t want to give any special priority to seniors, and don’t want to deprive juniors of their opportunities. So this system was created, where everyone can mention before the registrar,” he said.
Senior advocates were barred from mentioning cases for immediate listing by the then CJI Dipak Misra in August 2017 and only advocate-on-record, a special category of advocates qualified to file cases in the SCs, were allowed to mention cases. was allowed. This was later extended to junior advocates, but the seniors pushed their way in and the system failed.
attorney general KK Venugopali is the only exception. He never argued a case before a vacation bench, preferring to travel to foreign places during court holidays and leave the ground open for his juniors.