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Lawyers Routinely Giving Certificates For Filing Review Petitions Defeats Purpose Of Trusting Them With The Task: Delhi HC [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Tuesday, rapped litigants for making it a habit of filing review petitions without understanding whether the case was fit for it. This is being stated by this Court because filing of review petition has now become almost a habit with respect to certain litigants," Justice Valmiki J. Mehta observed.The Court also scorned. This is being stated by this Court because filing of review petition has now become almost a habit with respect to certain litigants," Justice Valmiki J. Mehta observed. The Court also scorned at the practice of lawyers routinely giving out certificates affirming that such review petitions should be filed, observing, "Not only filing of the review petition becoming a habit for certain litigants, the same is also not filed in terms of the rules of this Court, because a review petition must be accompanied by a certificate of the lawyer that the review petition is justified, however, lawyers are routinely giving certificate that the review petition should be filed.

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