Bombay HC rebukes senior lawyer after junior is blamed for missing court date
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently expressed displeasure when a lawyer sought to blame a junior for missing a court date which resulted in the dismissal of an appeal.
The court directed the senior lawyer to gift the latter a book on the Indian Constitution as a "gesture of goodwill".
An appeal filed by Memon Co-operative Bank Ltd was dismissed on November 24, 2022, due to the absence of the bank's lawyer.
The bank then filed an application seeking restoration of the appeal.
Senior lawyer Jayesh Patel could not remain present in the court on the day when the hearing was scheduled due to an oversight by the junior advocate tasked with checking the causelist, the application said.
"We find it most unfortunate that the Appellant's Advocate on record has sought to lay the blame for non-appearance at the hands of a junior Advocate, who had in fact enrolled as an advocate less than two months before the date on which the said appeal came to be dismissed," the division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor said in a recent order.
Allowing restoration of the appeal in the interest of justice, the bench, instead of imposing costs, directed the bank's lawyer to gift the junior lawyer a copy of `The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation' by Granville Austin.
"This, in our view, would serve as a gesture of goodwill and erase any misunderstanding or ill-will that may have occurred in the mind of the learned junior Advocate," the court said.
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ICSE, ISC results: Girls outperform boys, pass rate over 99%
New Delhi (PTI): The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations on Thursday announced the Class 10 and Class 12 results for 2026, with overall pass percentages of 99.18 per cent and 99.13 per cent, respectively.
A total of 2,58,721 candidates appeared for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), or Class 10, examination.
About 1,03,316 students took the Indian School Certificate (ISC), or Class 12, exam.
Girls outperformed boys in both examinations.
In ICSE, girls recorded a pass percentage of 99.46 per cent compared to 98.93 per cent for boys.
In ISC, girls achieved a 99.48 per cent pass percentage, while those of boys stood at 98.81 per cent.
Students can now access their scorecards on the official website cisce.org.
