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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TN youth from UAE has tested negative for Mpox: Health Minister Subramanian
Chennai, Nov 2: A 27-year-old native of Thiruvarur district, who had arrived from Sharjah, has tested negative for monkey pox, Health Minister Ma Subramanian said here on Saturday.
Test results from both the King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research here and the Pune-based National Institute of Virology have show negative for Mpox virus, the minister said.
Subramanian had earlier in the day told reporters that result was awaited for the sample that had been dispatched to the NIV while test result from King Institute ruled out monkey pox.
On October 31, upon his arrival at Tiruchirappalli airport from the UAE, during screening, the young man displayed fever symptoms and small skin lesions. Hence, he was taken to a government hospital.
Subramanian said the returnee had been frightened and hence left for his hometown of Valangaiman in Thiruvarur district. "This treatment is for his good and in order to prevent the spread of infection," the minister said.
Hence, he was brought back to the hospital by the authorities with police help and he has been receiving good treatment at the state-run facility. Further, Subramanian said that the test result from the government-run King Institute indicated Chickenpox and marked negative for presence of Mpox.
Screening at airports for passengers arriving from foreign countries is going on continuously in the state and international airports have dedicated isolated rooms.
Special wards are ready in government medical college hospitals, including those in Chennai and Tiruchirappalli, to provide treatment for Mpox, in case anyone tests positive for the infection, the minister added.
