Advocates Act Confers No Right To Park Vehicle Inside Court Premises: Karnataka High Court
Live LawThe Karnataka High Court has held that Section 30 of the Advocates' Act only confers the right on the Advocates to practice and it does not confer any right on any advocate to park his/her vehicle inside Court premises. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty dismissed a public interest litigation filed by advocate N.S.Vijayanth Babu, seeking quashing of a notice regarding issuance of new vehicle stickers for the members of the Advocates' Association. Thus it was urged that the impugned notice violates the rights of the Advocates under Section 30 of the Advocates' Act, 1961, to practice, who are not members of the Advocates' Association, Bengaluru. Findings: The bench said that the impugned notice was issued to regulate the entry of the vehicles used by the Advocates as parking space in the premises of the Court is limited.