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Famous law-firm and its lawyer-staff even unaware about procedure to vakalatnama

Kashmir Times. Dated: 11/6/2018 12:09:20 AM

Dear Editor,
It refers to media-reports about a famous law-firm confessing to Bar Council of Delhi about its omission to continue with faulty practice of listing all the lawyers retained with the firm in a court-case in the joint vakalatnama with each of the lawyers having signed also the vakalatnama. Bar Council of Delhi took the matter with the law-firm on a complaint subsequent to the vakalatnama signed by too many lawyers went viral on social media.
Bar Council of Delhi should suspend licences of all the lawyers for some nominal period as token punishment who signed such a vakalatnama because all those having signed the vakalatnama did not have even elementary knowledge to file vakalatnama. Law-firm should be imposed heavy fine for the omission already confessed by head of the law-firm. Bar Council of Delhi should issue a press-note on the issue naming the law-firm and lawyers involved in filing a faulty vakalatnama.
—Subhash Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba, Chandni Chowk Delhi.