Advocates Cannot Mislead Clients and Leave Them to Suffer: Madhya Pradesh High Court Sets Aside Ex Parte Proceedings, Calls for Bar Council Action

Introduction: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has underscored the serious professional responsibility that advocates owe to their clients, holding that a litigant should not be made to suffer the consequences of negligent or potentially deliberate lapses by the lawyer engaged to represent them. While setting aside ex parte proceedings initiated against a woman who had […]

Advocates Cannot Mislead Clients and Leave Them to Suffer: Madhya Pradesh High Court Sets Aside Ex Parte Proceedings, Calls for Bar Council Action

Introduction: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has underscored the serious professional responsibility that advocates owe to their clients, holding that a litigant should not be made to suffer the consequences of negligent or potentially deliberate lapses by the lawyer engaged to represent them. While setting aside ex parte proceedings initiated against a woman who had […]

Supreme Court Orders Appointment of Woman Police Constable After Independent Medical Board Confirms Normal Vision

Introduction: The Supreme Court of India has come to the aid of a woman candidate who was denied appointment to the post of Constable in the Uttar Pradesh Civil Police on the ground that she allegedly suffered from a squint eye, despite an independent medical examination subsequently certifying her eyesight as proper and normal. Emphasising […]

Supreme Court Sets Aside Premature Rejection of Civil Suit, Directs Maintenance of Records for Unregistered Plaints

Introduction: The Supreme Court of India has reiterated that a civil plaint can be rejected even before the suit is formally registered, provided the conditions prescribed under Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC), are satisfied. However, the Court has emphasised that the power to reject a plaint at the […]