‘Cede turf to children in summer time break’, SC tells senior advocates

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NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court on Tuesday pushed high attorneys — Abhishek Singhvi, Siddharth Luthra, Siddharth Dave and Anjana Prakash — to cede turf throughout summer time break with a view to offering a chance to younger attorneys to argue earlier than the best court docket.

Refusing to listen to arguments of the 4 senior counsels, a trip bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Ahsanuddin Amanullah mentioned, “We won’t hear a senior counsel.”

When senior advocate Singhvi talked about a matter associated to Zydus Wellness Ltd for pressing listening to, the bench mentioned, “Mr Singhvi, you are mentioning before a vacation bench. We won’t hear a senior counsel. Please ask your advocate on record to mention.”

The second incident occurred shortly after when Senior Advocate Anjana Prakash tried to say a matter earlier than the identical bench. Asking the senior counsel to offer alternatives to senior counsels to reinforce their abilities, Justice Nath mentioned, “What are you doing here on vacation? We won’t hear you. We will hear the counsel next to you.”

Apart from the bench encouraging junior counsels to say the issues, the court docket additionally adopted the identical strategy whereas listening to issues. While senior advocate Siddharth Dave was arguing a bail matter, the bench mentioned, “We cannot hear senior counsels.”

Interestingly, the court docket’s agency stand of solely permitting instructing counsels to argue resulted in Suneetha Narredy, daughter of deceased YS Vivekananda Reddy, arguing the plea difficult the anticipatory bail granted to MP YS Avinash Reddy by Telangana HC herself. Refusing to permit senior advocate Siddharth Luthra to argue the matter, the bench mentioned, “You will put us in trouble for discriminating. You cannot argue, you may only assist.”

This isn’t the primary time that the highest court docket’s trip bench had taken this view. Earlier in May, a trip bench led by Justice JK Maheshwari had refused to grant senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi the freedom to say a case. “We will record what you say. But as per the vacation norms, juniors are to be sent in listed mentioning,” the court docket had mentioned.

Junior will get an opportunity  

Interestingly, the agency stand by the Supreme Court trip bench of solely permitting instructing counsels to argue resulted in Suneetha Narredy, daughter of deceased YS Vivekananda Reddy, arguing the plea difficult the anticipatory bail granted to MP YS Avinash Reddy by Telangana High Court herself. 

NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court on Tuesday pushed high attorneys — Abhishek Singhvi, Siddharth Luthra, Siddharth Dave and Anjana Prakash — to cede turf throughout summer time break with a view to offering a chance to younger attorneys to argue earlier than the best court docket.

Refusing to listen to arguments of the 4 senior counsels, a trip bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Ahsanuddin Amanullah mentioned, “We won’t hear a senior counsel.”

When senior advocate Singhvi talked about a matter associated to Zydus Wellness Ltd for pressing listening to, the bench mentioned, “Mr Singhvi, you are mentioning before a vacation bench. We won’t hear a senior counsel. Please ask your advocate on record to mention.”googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The second incident occurred shortly after when Senior Advocate Anjana Prakash tried to say a matter earlier than the identical bench. Asking the senior counsel to offer alternatives to senior counsels to reinforce their abilities, Justice Nath mentioned, “What are you doing here on vacation? We won’t hear you. We will hear the counsel next to you.”

Apart from the bench encouraging junior counsels to say the issues, the court docket additionally adopted the identical strategy whereas listening to issues. While senior advocate Siddharth Dave was arguing a bail matter, the bench mentioned, “We cannot hear senior counsels.”

Interestingly, the court docket’s agency stand of solely permitting instructing counsels to argue resulted in Suneetha Narredy, daughter of deceased YS Vivekananda Reddy, arguing the plea difficult the anticipatory bail granted to MP YS Avinash Reddy by Telangana HC herself. Refusing to permit senior advocate Siddharth Luthra to argue the matter, the bench mentioned, “You will put us in trouble for discriminating. You cannot argue, you may only assist.”

This isn’t the primary time that the highest court docket’s trip bench had taken this view. Earlier in May, a trip bench led by Justice JK Maheshwari had refused to grant senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi the freedom to say a case. “We will record what you say. But as per the vacation norms, juniors are to be sent in listed mentioning,” the court docket had mentioned.

Junior will get an opportunity  

Interestingly, the agency stand by the Supreme Court trip bench of solely permitting instructing counsels to argue resulted in Suneetha Narredy, daughter of deceased YS Vivekananda Reddy, arguing the plea difficult the anticipatory bail granted to MP YS Avinash Reddy by Telangana High Court herself.