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Supreme Court Rules 2013: 

Order IV

Advocates

1. (a) Subject to the provisions of these rules an advocate whose name is entered on the roll of any State Bar Council maintained under the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) as amended shall be entitled to appear before the Court:

Provided that an advocate whose name is entered on the roll of any State Bar Council maintained under the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), for less than one year, shall be entitled to mention matters in Court for the limited purpose of asking for time, date, adjournment and similar such orders, but shall not be entitled to address the Court for the purpose of any effective hearing:

Provided further that the Court may, if it thinks desirable to do so for any reason, permit any person to appear and address the Court in a particular case.

(b) No advocate other than the Advocate-on-record for a party shall appear, plead and address the Court in a matter unless he is instructed by the advocate-on-record or permitted by the Court.

(c) In petitions/appeals received from jail or a matter filed by a party-in-person or where a party-inperson as respondent is not represented by an Advocate-on-Record, the Secretary General/Registrar may require the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee to assign an Advocate, who may assist the Court on behalf of such person:

Provided that whenever a party wants to appear and argue the case in person, he/she shall first file an application alongwith the petition seeking permission to appear and argue in person. The application shall indicate reasons as to why he/she cannot engage an Advocate and wants to appear and argue in person, and if he is willing to accept an Advocate, who can be appointed for him by the Court. Such application shall, in the first instance, be placed before the concerned Registrar to interact with the party-in-person and give opinion by way of office report whether the party-in-person will be able to give necessary assistance to the Court for proper disposal of the matter or an Advocate may be appointed as Amicus Curiae.

If the application is allowed by the Court then only the party-in-person will be permitted to appear and argue the case in person.

[Provided further that whenever an advocate whose name is entered on the rolls of any State Bar Council maintained under the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) wants to appear and argue the case in person, he shall be exempted from the requirement of interaction by the concerned Registrar.]

2. (a) The Chief Justice and the Judges may, with the consent of the advocate, designate an advocate as senior advocate if in their opinion by virtue of his ability, standing at the Bar or special knowledge or experience in law the said advocate is deserving of such distinction.

(b) A senior advocate shall not -

(i) file a vakalatnama or act in any Court or Tribunal in India;

(ii) appear without an advocate-on-record in the Court or without a junior in any other Court or Tribunal in India;

(iii) accept instructions to draw pleadings or affidavit, advise on evidence or do any drafting work of an analogous kind in any Court or Tribunal in India or undertake conveyancing work of any kind whatsoever but this prohibition shall not extend to settling any such matter as aforesaid in consultation with a junior;

(iv) accept directly from a client any brief or instructions to appear in any Court or Tribunal in India.

Explanation.-

In this order-

(i) 'acting' means filing an appearance or any pleadings or applications in any Court or Tribunal in India, or any act (other than pleading) required or authorised by law to be done by a party in such Court or Tribunal either in person or by his recognised agent or by an advocate or attorney on his behalf.

(ii) 'tribunal' includes any authority or person legally authorised to take evidence and before whom advocates are, by or under any law for the time being in force, entitled to practice.

(iii) 'junior' means an advocate other than a senior advocate.

(c) Upon an advocate being designated as a senior advocate, the Registrar shall communicate to all the High Courts and the Secretary to the Bar Council of India and the Secretary of the State Bar Council concerned the name of the said Advocate and the date on which he was so designated.

3. Every advocate appearing before the court shall wear such robes and costume as may from time to time be directed by the Court.

4. Any advocate not being a senior advocate may, on his fulfilling the conditions laid down in rule 5, be registered in the Court as an advocate-on-record.

5. No advocate shall be qualified to be registered as an advocate-on-record unless :-

(i) his name is, and has been borne on the roll of any State Bar Council for a period of not less than four years on the date of commencement of his training as provided hereinafter :

Provided however, if any candidate has earlier appeared in any of the Advocates-on-Record Examination he shall continue to be so eligible to sit in any subsequent examination;

(ii) he has undergone training for one year with an advocate-on-record approved by the Court, and has thereafter passed such tests as may be held by the Court for advocates who apply to be registered as advocates on record particulars whereof shall be notified in the Official Gazette from time to time provided however that-

(a) an attorney shall be exempted from such training and test; and

(b) a solicitor on the rolls of the Bombay Incorporated Law Society shall be exempted from such training and test if his/her name is, and has been borne on the roll of State Bar Council for a period of not less than seven years on the date of making the application for registration as an advocate-on-record;

(c) the Chief Justice may, in appropriate cases, grant exemption-

(1) from the requirement of training under this clause in the case of an advocate, whose name is borne on the roll of any State Bar Council and has been borne on such roll for a period of not less than ten years.

(2) from the requirement of clause (i) and from training under this clause in the case of an advocate having special knowledge or experience in law.

(iii) he has an office in Delhi within a radius of 16 kilometers from the Court House and gives an undertaking to employ, within one month of his being registered as advocate-on-record, a registered clerk; and

(iv) he pays a registration fee of two hundred fifty rupees.

6 (1) An advocate who has been convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude shall not be eligible, unless the said conviction has been stayed or suspended by any Court, to appear in the tests referred to in clause

(ii) of rule 5, on and from the date of such conviction and thereafter for a period of two years with effect from the date he has served out the sentence, or has paid the fine imposed on him, or has served out the sentence and paid the fine imposed on him, as the case may be:

Provided that the Chief Justice may, if he thinks fit so to do, relax the provisions of this rule in any particular case or cases.

(2) Nothing in clause (1) shall apply to an advocate who has been released on probation of good conduct or after due admonition and no penalty has been imposed thereafter in the manner provided under the provisions of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (20 of 1958) or under section 360 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).

7. (a) An advocate-on-record shall, on his filing a memorandum of appearance on behalf of a party accompanied by a vakalatnama duly executed by the party, be entitled-

(i) to act as well as to plead for the party in the matter and to conduct and prosecute before the Court all proceedings that may be taken in respect of the said matter or any application connected with the same or any decree or order passed therein including proceedings in taxation and applications for review; and

(ii) to deposit and receive money on behalf of the said party.

(b) (i) Where the vakalatnama is executed in the presence of the Advocate-on-Record, he shall certify that it was executed in his presence.

(ii) Where the Advocate-on-Record merely accepts the vakalatnama which is already duly executed in the presence of a Notary or an advocate, he shall make an endorsement thereon that he has satisfied himself about the due execution of the vakalatnama.

(c) No advocate other than an advocate-on-record shall be entitled to file an appearance or act for a party in the Court.

(d) Every advocate-on-record shall keep such books of account as may be necessary to show and distinguish in connection with his practice as an advocate-on-record-

(i) moneys received from or on account of and the moneys paid to or on account of each of his clients; and

(ii) the moneys received and the moneys paid on his own account.

(e) Every advocate-on-record shall, before taxation of the Bill of Costs, file with the Taxing Officer a Certificate showing the amount of fee paid to him or agreed to be paid to him by his client.

8. Where an advocate-on-record ceases to have an office or a registered clerk or both as required by clause (iii) of rule 5, notice shall issue to such advocate to show cause before the Chamber Judge on a date fixed, why his name should not be struck off the register of advocates on record, and if the Chamber Judge makes such an order, the name of such advocate shall be removed from the register accordingly and the advocate shall thereafter cease to be entitled to act as an advocate-on-record.

9. Where an advocate-on-record is suspended or his name is removed from the State roll maintained under the Advocates Act, 1961 [25 of 1961], he shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Court, be deemed as from the date of the order of the State Bar Council or the Bar Council of India, as the case may be, to be suspended or removed from the register of advocates on record for the same period as is mentioned in the order of the State Bar Council or the Bar Council of India, as the case may be.

10. When, on the complaint of any person or otherwise, the Court is of the opinion that an advocate-onrecord has been guilty of misconduct or of conduct unbecoming of an advocate-on-record, the Court may make an order removing his name from the register of advocates on record either permanently or for such period as the Court may think fit and the Registrar shall thereupon report the said fact to the Bar Council of India and to State Bar Council concerned:

Provided that the Court shall, before making such order, issue to such advocate-on-record a summons returnable before the Court or before a Special Bench to be constituted by the Chief Justice, requiring the advocate-on-record to show cause against the matters alleged in the summons, and the summons shall, if practicable, be served personally upon him with copies of any affidavit or statement before the Court at the time of the issue of the summons.

Explanation.- For the purpose of these rules, misconduct or conduct unbecoming of an advocate-on-record shall include

a) Mere name lending by an advocate-on-record without any further participation in the proceedings of the case;

b) Absence of the advocate-on-record from the Court without any justifiable cause when the case is taken up for hearing; and

c) Failure to submit appearance slip duly signed by the advocate-on-record of actual appearances in the Court.

11. Any advocate-on-record may at any time by letter request the Registrar to remove his name from the register of advocates on record, absolutely or subject to his continuing to act as advocate-on-record in respect of all or any of the pending cases in which he may have filed a vakalatnama, of which he shall file a list. The Registrar shall thereupon remove his name from the register of advocates on record, absolutely or subject as aforesaid.

12. Every advocate-on-record shall notify to the Registrar his/her e-mail address and the address of his office in Delhi and every change of such address, and any notice, writ, summons, or other document sent on such e-mail address or served on him or his clerk at the address so notified by him shall be deemed to have been properly served.

13. (1) An advocate-on-record or a firm of advocates may employ one or more clerks to attend the registry for presenting or receiving any papers on behalf of the said advocate or firm of advocates: Provided that the clerk has been registered with the Registrar on an application in the prescribed form made to the Registrar for the purpose:

Provided further that the said clerk gives an undertaking that he shall attend the Registry regularly.

(2) Notice of every application for the registration of a clerk shall be given to the Secretary, Supreme Court Bar Association, who shall be entitled to bring to the notice of the Registrar within seven days of the receipt of the notice any facts which in his opinion may have a bearing on the suitability of the clerk to be registered.

(3) The Registrar may decline to register any clerk who in his opinion is not sufficiently qualified, or is otherwise unsuitable to be registered as such, and may for reasons to be recorded in writing, remove from the register the name of any clerk after giving him and the employer an opportunity to show cause against such removal. Intimation shall be given to the Secretary, Bar Association, of every order registering a clerk or removing a clerk from the register.

(4) Every clerk shall, upon registration, be given an identity card which he shall produce whenever required, and which he shall surrender when he ceases to be the clerk of the advocate or firm of advocates, for whom he was registered. Where a fresh identity card is required in substitution of one that is lost or damaged, a fee of fifty rupees shall be levied for the issue of the same.

(5) Every advocate-on-record shall have a registered clerk. No advocate may employ as his clerk any person who is a tout.

14. (1) The Registrar shall publish lists of persons proved to his satisfaction, by evidence of general repute or otherwise, habitually to act as touts to be known as 'list of touts' and may from time to time, alter and amend such lists. A copy of every list of touts shall be displayed on the notice board of the Court.

Explanation.-

In this Order-

(a) 'tout' means a person who procures, in consideration of any remuneration moving from any advocate or from any person acting on his behalf, the employment of such advocate in any legal business, or who proposes to or procures any advocate, in consideration of any remuneration moving from such advocate or from any person acting on his behalf, the employment of the advocate in such business, or who, for purposes of such procurement, frequents the precincts of the Court.

(b) the passing of a resolution by the Supreme Court Bar Association or by a High Court Bar Association declaring any person to be a tout shall be evidence of general repute of such person for the purpose of this rule.

(2) No person shall be included in the list of touts unless he has been given an opportunity to show cause against the inclusion of his name in such list. Any person may appeal to the Chamber Judge against the order of the Registrar including his name in such list.

(3) The Registrar may, by general or special order, exclude from the precincts of the Court all such persons whose names are included in the list of touts.

15. No person having an advocate-on-record shall file a vakalatnama authorizing another advocate-onrecord to act for him in the same case save with the consent of the former advocate-on-record or by leave of the Judge in Chambers, unless the former advocate-on-record is dead, or is unable by reason of infirmity of mind or body to continue to act.

16. Where a party changes his advocate-on-record, the new advocate-on-record shall give notice of the change to all other parties appearing.

17. No advocate-on-record, may, without the leave of the Court, withdraw from the conduct of any case by reason only of the non-payment of fees by his client.

18. An advocate-on-record who, on being designated as a senior advocate or on being appointed as a Judge or for any other reason ceases to be an advocate-on-record for any party in a case shall forthwith inform the party concerned that he has ceased to represent the said party as advocate-on-record in the case. The senior advocate, so designated, shall not appear as senior advocate till he reports to the Registry that parties represented by him earlier have been so informed of his designation as senior advocate and that necessary arrangements have been made for the parties to make appearance before the Court in all the cases represented by him till then.

19. No person having an advocate-on-record, shall be heard in person save by special leave of the Court.

20. No advocate-on-record shall authorise any person whatsoever except another advocate-on-record, to act for him in any case.

21. Every advocate-on-record shall be personally liable to the Court for the due payment of all fees and charges payable to the Court.

22. Two or more advocates on record may enter into a partnership with each other, and any partner may act in the name of the partnership provided that the partnership is registered with the Registrar. Any change in the composition of the partnership shall be notified to the Registrar.

23. Two or more advocates not being senior advocates or advocates on record, may enter into partnership and subject to the provision contained in rule 1(b), any one of them may appear in any cause or matter before the Court in the name of the partnership.

Supreme Court Rules 1966: 

ORDER IV

ADVOCATES

1. Subject to the provisions of these rules only those advocates whose names

are entered 1

[on the roll of any State Bar Council maintained under the Advocates

Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) as amended] shall be entitled to appear and plead before

the Court:

Provided that the Court may, if for any special reason it thinks desirable to do

so, permit any other person to appear before it in a particular case.

2. (a) The Chief Justice and the Judges may, with the consent of the advocate,

designate an advocate as senior advocate if in their opinion by virtue of his ability,

1

[standing at the Bar or special knowledge or experience in law] the said advocate

is deserving of such distinction.

1. Subs. by G.S.R. 198, dated 4th February, 1976(w.e.f. 14-2-1976).

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(b) A senior advocate shall not-

(i) file a vakalatnama or act in any Court or Tribunal in India;

(ii) appear without an advocate on record in the Court or without a junior

in any other Court or Tribunal in India;

(iii) accept instructions to draw pleadings or affidavits, advise on evidence

or do any drafting work of an analogous kind in any Court or Tribunal

in India or undertake conveyancing work of any kind whatsoever but

this prohibition shall not extend to settling any such matter as aforesaid

in consultation with a junior;

(iv) accept directly from a client any brief or instructions to appear in any

Court or Tribunal in India.

Explanation:

In this Order-

(i) ‘acting’ means filing an appearance or any pleadings or applications

in any Court or Tribunal in India, or any act (other than pleading)

required or authorised by law to be done by a party in such Court

or Tribunal either in person or by his recognised agent or by an

advocate or attorney on his behalf.

(ii) ‘tribunal’ includes any authority or person legally authorised to take

evidence and before whom advocates are, by or under any law for

the time being in force, entitled to practice.

(iii) ‘junior’ means an advocate other than a senior advocate.

(c) Upon an advocate being designated as a senior advocate, the Registrar

shall communicate to all the High Courts and the Secretary to the Bar Council of

India 1

[and the Secretary of the State Bar Council concerned] the name of the said

Advocate and the date on which he was so designated.

3. Every advocate appearing before the Court shall wear such robes and

1. Ins. by G.S.R. 198, dated 4th February, 1976 (w.e.f. l4-2-1976).

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costume as may from time to time be directed by the Court.

4.Any advocate not being a senior advocate may, on his fulfilling the conditions

laid down in rule 5, be registered in the Court as an advocate on record:

Provided that notwithstanding anything contained in rule 5, any advocate whose

name was registered with the Registrar as an advocate on record immediately before

the 8th day of September, 1962, shall be registered as an advocate on record.

1

[5. No advocate shall be qualified to be registered as an advocate on record

unless: -

(i) his name is, and has been borne on the roll of any State Bar Council

for a period of not less than 2

[four] years on the date of

commencement of his training as provided hereinafter:

3

[Provided however, if any candidate has earlier appeared in any

of the Advocates-on-Record Examination he shall continue to be so

eligible to sit in any subsequent examination;]

4

[(ii) he has undergone training for one year with an advocate on record

approved by the Court, and has thereafter passed such tests as may

be held by the Court for advocates who apply to be registered as

advocates on record particulars whereof shall be notified in the Official

Gazette from time to time provided however that-

(a) an attorney shall be exempted from such training and test; and

5

[(aa) a solicitor on the rolls of the Bombay Incorporated Law

Society shall be exempted from such training and test if his/her name

is, and has been borne on the roll of State Bar Council for the period

1. Subs. by G.S.R. 1350, dated 11th December 1974 (w.e.f. 21-9-1974).

2. Subs. by G.S.R. 607, dated 5th May, 1988 (w.e.f. 30-.7-1988) and again Subs. by G.S.R.

580, dated 17th November, 1993 (w.e.f. 27-11-1993).

3. Subs. by G.S.R. 607, dated 5th May, 1988 (w.e.f. 30-7-1988).

4. Subs. by G.S.R. 1024, dated 9th August, 1978 (w.e.f. 19-8-1978).

5. Ins. by G.S.R. 31 dated 6th January, 1990 (w.e.f. 13-1-1990).

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of not less than seven years on the date of making the application

for registration as an advocate-on-record;]

(b) the Chief Justice may, in appropriate cases, grant exemption-

(1) from the requirement of training under this clause in the case of

an advocate, whose name is borne on the roll of any State Bar

Council and has been borne on such roll for a period of not less than

1

[ten] years:

2

[Provided however that the amendments made in rule 5(i) and 5(ii)

(b) (1) of Order IV, by the Supreme Court (First Amendment) Rules,

1988 shall be applicable to the Advocates who are enrolled with a

State Bar Council on or after 30-7-1988 when the aforesaid

amendment came into force;] and

(2) from the requirement of clause (i) and from training under this

clause in the case of an advocate having special knowledge or

experience in law.

(iii) he has an office in Delhi within a radius of 16 kilometers from the

Court House and gives an undertaking to employ, within one month

of his being registered as advocate on record, a registered clerk; and

(iv) he pays a registration fee of twenty-five rupees.]

3

[5A. (1) An advocate who has been convicted of an offence involving moral

turpitude shall not be eligible, unless the said conviction has been

stayed or suspended by any Court, to appear in the tests referred to

in clause (ii) of rule 5, on and from the date of such conviction and

thereafter for a period of two years with effect from the date he has

served out the sentence, or has paid the fine imposed on him, or has

served out the sentence and paid the fine imposed on him, as the

case may be:

1. Subs. by G.S.R. 607, dated 5th May, 1988 (w.e.f. 30-7-1988).

2. Ins. by G.S.R. 182, dated 10th March, 1989 (w.e.f. 25-3-1989).

3. Ins. by GS.R. 694, dated 10th August, 1982 (w.e.f. 21-8-1982).

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Provided that the Chief Justice may, if he thinks fit so to do, relax the provisions

of this rule in any particular case or cases.

(2) Nothing in clause (i) shall apply to an advocate who has been released on

probation of good conduct or after due admonition and no penalty has been imposed

thereafter in the manner provided under the provisions of the Probation of Offenders

Act, 1958 (20 of 1958) or under section 360 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,

1973 (2 of 1974).]

6. (a) An advocate on record shall, on his filing a memorandum of appearance

on behalf of a party accompanied by a vakalatnama duly executed by the party, be

entitled-

(i) to act as well as to plead for the party in the matter and to conduct

and prosecute before the Court all proceedings that may be taken

in respect of the said matter or any application connected with

the same or any decree or order passed therein including

proceedings in taxation and applications for review; and

(ii) to deposit and receive money on behalf of the said party.

(b) No advocate other than an advocate on record shall be entitled to file

an appearance or act for a party in the Court.

(c) Every advocate on record shall keep such books of account as may

be necessary to show and distinguish in connection with his practice as an

advocate on record-

(i) moneys received from or on account of and the moneys paid to

or on account of each of his clients; and

(ii) the moneys received and the moneys paid on his own account.

(d) Every advocate on record shall, before taxation of the Bill of Costs,

file with the Taxing Officer a Certificate showing the amount of fee paid to

him or agreed to be paid to him by his client.

7. Where an advocate on record ceases to have an office or a registered

clerk or both as required by clause (iii) of rule 5, notice shall issue to such

advocate to show cause before the Chamber Judge on a date fixed, why his

name should not be struck off the register of advocates on record, and if the

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Chamber Judge makes such an order, the name of such advocate shall be removed

from the register accordingly and the advocate shall thereafter cease to be entitled

to act as an advocate on record.

8. Where an advocate on record is suspended or his name is removed from

the 1

[State roll] maintained under the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), he

shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Court, be deemed as from the date of

the order of the State Bar Council or the Bar Council of India, as the case may be,

to be suspended or removed from the register of advocates on record for the same

period as is mentioned in the order of the State Bar Council or the Bar Council of

India, as the case may be.

2

[8A. When, on the complaint of any person or otherwise, the Court is of

the opinion that an advocate on record has been guilty of misconduct or of

conduct unbecoming of an advocate on record, the Court may make an order

removing his name from the register of advocates on record either permanently

or for such period as the Court may think fit and the Registrar shall thereupon

report the said fact to the Bar Council of India and to State Bar Council

concerned:

Provided that the Court shall, before making such order, issue to such

advocate on record a summons returnable before the Court or before a Special

Bench to be constituted by the Chief Justice, requiring the advocate on record

to show cause against the matters alleged in the summons, and the summons

shall, if practicable, be served personally upon him with copies of any affidavit

or statement before the Court at the time of the issue of the summons.]

9. Any advocate on record may at any time by letter request the Registrar

to remove his name from the register of advocates on record, absolutely or

subject to his continuing to act as advocate on record in respect of all or any

of the pending cases in which he may have filed a vakalatnama, of which he

shall file a list. The Registrar shall thereupon remove his name from the register

of advocates on record, absolutely or subject as aforesaid.

10. No advocate other than an advocate on record shall appear and plead

in any matter unless he is instructed by an advocate on record.

1. Subs. by G.S.R. 198, dated 4th February, 1976 (w.e.f. 14-2-1976).

2. Ins. by G.S.R. 87, dated 15th January, 1983 (w.e.f. 29-1-1983).

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11. Every advocate on record shall notify to the Registrar the address of his

office in Delhi and every change of such address, and any notice, writ, summons,

or other document served on him or his clerk at the address so notified by him

shall be deemed to have been properly served.

12. (1) An advocate on record or a firm of advocates may employ one or

more clerks to attend the registry for presenting or receiving any papers on behalf

of the said advocate or firm of advocates:

Provided that the clerk has been registered with the Registrar on an application

in the prescribed form made to the Registrar for the purpose.

Provided further that the said clerk gives an undertaking that he shall attend

the Registry regularly.

(2) Notice of every application for the registration of a clerk shall be given to

the Secretary, Supreme Court Bar Association, who shall be entitled to bring to

the notice of the Registrar within seven days of the receipt of the notice any facts

which in his opinion may have a bearing on the suitability of the clerk to be registered.

(3) The Registrar may decline to register any clerk who in his opinion is not

sufficiently qualified, or is otherwise unsuitable to be registered as such, and may

for reasons to be recorded in writing, remove from the register the name of any

clerk after giving him and the employer an opportunity to show cause against such

removal. Intimation shall be given to the Secretary, Bar Association, of every order

registering a clerk or removing a clerk from the register.

(4) Every clerk shall, upon registration, be given an identity card which he shall

produce whenever required, and which he shall surrender when he ceases to be

the clerk of the advocate or firm of advocates, for whom he was registered. Where

a fresh identity card is required in substitution of one that is lost or damaged, a fee

of three rupees shall be levied for the issue of the same.

(5) Every advocate on record shall have a registered clerk. No advocate may

employ as his clerk any person who is a tout.

13. (1) The Registrar shall publish lists of persons proved to his satisfaction,

by evidence of general repute or otherwise, habitually to act as touts to be known

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as ‘list of touts’ and may from time to time, alter and amend such lists. A copy of

every list of touts shall be displayed on the notice board of the Court.

Explanation:

In this Order-

(a) ‘tout’ means a person who procures, in consideration of any

remuneration moving from any advocate or from any person acting

on his behalf, the employment of such advocate in any legal business,

or who proposes to or procures any advocate, in consideration of

any remuneration moving from such advocate or from any person

acting on his behalf, the employment of the advocate in such business,

or who, for purposes of such procurement, frequents the precincts

of the Court.

(b) the passing of a resolution by the Supreme Court Bar Association

or by a High Court Bar Association declaring any person to be a

tout shall be evidence of general repute of such person for the purpose

of this rule.

(2) No person shall be included in the list of touts unless he has been given an

opportunity to show cause against the inclusion of his name in such list. Any person

may appeal to the Chamber Judge against the order of the Registrar including his

name in such list.

(3) The Registrar may, by general or special order, exclude from the precincts

of the Court all such persons whose names are included in the list of touts.

14. No person having an advocate on record shall file a vakalatnama authorising

another advocate on record to act for him in the same case save with the consent

of the former advocate on record or by leave of the Judge in Chambers, unless the

former advocate on record is dead, or is unable by reason of infirmity of mind or

body to continue to act.

15. Where a party changes his advocate on record, the new advocate on

record shall give notice of the change to all other parties appearing.

16. No advocate on record, may, without the leave of the Court, withdraw

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from the conduct of any case by reason only of the non-payment of fees by his

client.

17. No person having an advocate on record, shall be heard in person save

by special leave of the Court.

18. No advocate on record shall authorise any person whatsoever except

another advocate on record, to act for him in any case.

19. Every advocate on record shall be personally liable to the Court for

the due payment of all fees and charges payable to the Court.

20. Two or more advocates on record may enter into a partnership with each

other, and any partner may act in the name of the partnership provided that the

partnership is registered with the Registrar. Any change in the composition of the

partnership shall be notified to the Registrar.

21. Two or more advocates not being senior advocates or advocates on

record, may enter into partnership and subject to the provision contained in

rule 10, any one of them may appear in any cause or matter before the Court in the

name of the partnership.