NEW DELHI: Echoing the rights of litigants, the Delhi High Court has advised lawyers to bring in more professionalism while arguing in courts and said that mediocrity will not be tolerated.
The court reprimanded lawyers for not adhering to minimum standards of legal profession and said, “It is time to send a strong signal. This will improve the legal system and help it achieve the targets.”
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, in an order, noted that if the courts were to demand excellence and perfection from the lawyers, it is certain that the legal profession would reciprocate and ‘mediocrity will give way to meritocracy’.
“It is often said, bar is the mother of bench also,” the court added. The remark from the court came while it was hearing a civil case. The lawyer representing the petitioners blamed the previous counsel for the problems being faced by his clients. Justice Endlaw noted that the practice of a counsel blaming the earlier counsel had become rampant.
Justice Endlaw noted that practice of a counsel blaming the earlier counsel was rampant.