Advocates must not resort to court boycott at any cost as it has never solved any problem in the legal sphere.
Besides, court boycott was tantamount to criminal waste and breach of trust reposed on the legal fraternity by the litigant public, Justice N. Sathish Kumar, Judge, Madras High Court, said here on Saturday.
Speaking after declaring open a Labour Court with multi-district jurisdiction the Judge came down heavily on the tendency of the young advocates to take recourse to court boycott for even trivial reasons.
“Bar members must realise that courts were meant not just for the lawyers but also for the public at large. We must realise that we are just agents of our litigants. They place immense faith in us and follow implicitly what we say. We must not let the litigants down by abdicating our responsibilities in resorting to court boycotts,” Justice N. Sathish Kumar reiterated.
Earlier, Madras High Court Justice V. Bharathidasan set the tone for the talk on court boycott when he pointed out that court boycott was the principal reason for increase in pendency of cases in courts.
Court boycott was never a solution for any problem, he said and added that he was speaking from his personal experience as a Bar leader who had spearheaded several protests.
