The Trail court had repeatedly granted adjournments for plaintiff to present witness , but on final date , original lawyer engaged by parties could not reach Court within time , Trial Court closed the evidence stage . On writ allowing the petition the Court held that \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0party cannot be penalised for fault of \u00a0counsel . One more opportunity was granted to plaintiff to adduce evidence subject to payment of costs of Rs .5000 . \u00a0Court also observed that, \u00a0parties are completely dependent upon their lawyer to represent their case . Every lawyer is expected to keep in mind that he is also an officer of the Court and judicial system is based upon co operation of the lawyers . It is also expected from the concerned lawyers of parties to positively remain present before Court on the date given by the trail court . However , if the lawyer is not in a position to\u00a0 remain present , he shall make alternative arrangement for proceedings of the case in order to avoid inordinate delay . Referred , Noor Mohammed v. Jethanand (2013) 5 SCC 202 \/ AIR 2013 SC 1217 , Ramdev Chauhan alias Raj Nath v .State of Assam (2001) 5SCC 714\/ AIR 2001 SC 2231, Zahira Habibulla H. Sheik\u00a0 v. State of Gujarat , (2004) 4 SCC 158\/ AIR 2004 SC 3114 . \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0( WP 227 No. 675 of 2024 dt .8 -8-2024 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Advocate Act,1961 <\/p>\n
S. 24:Persons who may be admitted as advocates on a State roll- Duties of advocate \u2013 Production of evidence \u2013 Party cannot be penalised for fault pf counsel \u2013 One more opportunity is granted to produce evidence – One more opportunity was granted to plaintiff to adduce evidence subject to payment of costs of Rs .5000 .-
\n Every lawyer is expected to keep in mind the fact that he is also an officer of the Court and judicial system is based upon co operation of lawyers – It is also expected from the concerned lawyers of parties to positively remain present before Court on the date given by the trail court . However , if the lawyer is not in a position to remain present , he shall make alternative arrangement for proceedings of the case in order to avoid inordinate delay . [Civil Procedure Code , 1908 , O.18 R. 24 ] <\/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-49154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allied-laws"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-cMO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49154","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=49154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49155,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49154\/revisions\/49155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}