{"id":24916,"date":"2022-02-20T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T06:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/prashant-bhushan-and-another-in-re-2021-3-scc-160\/"},"modified":"2022-02-20T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T06:12:47","slug":"prashant-bhushan-and-another-in-re-2021-3-scc-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/prashant-bhushan-and-another-in-re-2021-3-scc-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Bhushan and another . In re ( 2021 ) 3 SCC 160"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statutory rules prohibits\u00a0 advocates from advertising . In fact , to cater to the press \/media , and present distorted versions of the court proceedings is sheer misconduct and contempt of court which has became very common . Hunger for cheap publicity is increasing which is not permitted by the noble ideas cherished by the great doyens of the Bar . \u00a0Role of a lawyer is indispensable in the system of delivery justice . A lawyer is under obligation to do nothing that shall detract from the dignity of the Court . He should all times pay deferential respect to the judge , and scrupulously observe the decorum of the courtroom . His duty is to court , to hos own client , to the opposite side , and to maintain the respect of opposite party counsel also. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Court has to decide cases as per law without taking into consideration whether it will be praised or criticized . The judges have to be well versed in laws and impartial towards friends and foes . Court has to be always ready for its fair criticism . The judges have to be impartial towards crime of voice .<\/p>\n<p>Showing magnanimity , instead of imposing any severe punishment , Court \u00a0is sentencing the contemnor with a nominal fine of Rs 1 ( Rupee one ) \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 .<br \/>\nS. 13:  Contempts   not punishable in certain cases &#8211; Advocates \u2013 Professional standards , ethics, and duties \u2013 Duty to avoid publicity \u2013 Judicial independence and courage \u2013 Media Trial \u2013 Trail by media &#8211; Judicial decisions cannot be influenced by opinions expressed in media .  [Advocates Act ,1961 , S. 35,  General Clauses Act , 1897, S. 3(22),  Art, 19(1)(a) ,19(2) ,  32 , 226 ] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allied-laws"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-6tS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24917,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions\/24917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}