SC Urges Lawyers to Avoid Strikes to Maintain Investor Confidence in India's Emerging Economy

SC Urges Lawyers to Avoid Strikes to Maintain Investor Confidence in India's Emerging Economy

Today, the Supreme Court urged lawyers to refrain from engaging in strikes, emphasizing that such actions could deter investors interested in India's emerging economy.

A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan emphasized that all members of the legal profession have a significant responsibility in this matter.

"We are also for effective mechanism to address their (lawyers) grievances but system must not stop even for an hour. I said recently too, we have such an emerging economy but with these (strikes) how will investors have confidence? There is onerous responsibility on all. Think about common man in this country. We must have something to stop (strike) culture," Justice Kant remarked.

The Supreme Court was hearing an appeal filed by Faizabad Bar Association's challenging the ruling of the Allahabad High Court, which mandated the formation of an Elders Committee to oversee the association's affairs, including the elections for its Governing Council scheduled for December.
 
In September, the Supreme Court seeks data on the number of lawyers' strikes and boycotts initiated by district bar associations in Uttar Pradesh this year. Further, the court voiced its strong disapproval of the frequent strikes organized by the bar body and ordered every office bearer of the association to submit an affidavit affirming that they would refrain from passing any resolutions to abstain from judicial work in the future.
 
During today's hearing, the Bench directed that the High Court's report on strikes occurring in the state be officially recorded and shared with the counsel.
 
The Faizabad bar's matter was adjourned till December 20.

"Have patience that is all. We appreciate you are releasing your mistake," the Court told the counsel representing the bar body today.

Senior Advocates Rakesh Kumar Khanna and Sukumar Pattjoshi with Advocates Kumar Murlidhar, Atul Verma, Aditya P Khanna, Adarsh Kumar Pandey, Mukesh Kumar, Varun Chugh, Mithilesh Kumar Jaiswal, Arun Kanwa, Vignesh Singh, Anoop Krishna Upadhyay, Abhinav Kaushik, Prashant Trivedi, Alok Kumar, Gautam Barnwal, Shailendra P Singh and Rohit Singh Lodhi appeared for the Faizabad bar association.

Senior Advocate CU Singh appeared for the original writ petitioners before the High Court, who are opposing the bar body's appeal before the Supreme Court.

Senior Advocate and Uttar Pradesh Additional Advocate General K Parameshwar appeared for the Allahabad High Court.

 
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