’Smarten up your act’: HC pulls up lawyers for casual attire, behaviour in virtual hearings
3 years, 8 months ago

’Smarten up your act’: HC pulls up lawyers for casual attire, behaviour in virtual hearings

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Indian lawyers have been told to smarten up their act after some appeared in virtual hearings in colourful shirts, just a vest or even while riding a scooter. The Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh state said Wednesday that cyberspace was like an extended courtroom and the casual attire and behaviour were unacceptable. "Advocates should understand that their appearance for hearing of cases through virtual mode from their house or office or chamber is like an extended court room and it is as serious as attending a proceeding inside a court," news channel NDTV quoted the court order as saying. The court said that in recent times it had encountered "a lady advocate with face pack on", a lawyer "while driving scooter", and one advocate "wearing a vest" and warned that it will not "ignore any more casual appearances". India's virtual court hearings like elsewhere -- like the viral Zoom video of a US lawyer stuck with a cat filter -- has too witnessed several faux pas.

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