A day after more than 3,000 lawyers from across the State attempted to lay siege to the Madras High Court seeking withdrawal of the amended Advocate Rules, the First Bench of Chief Justice S.K. But lawyers maintain that they will continue their agitation till the Rules are withdrawn in toto. However, despite the court’s order, the protesting lawyers showed no signs of a climbdown and maintained that they would continue their agitation till the Rules were withdrawn in toto. Kaul and Justice R. Mahadevan by an interim order reiterated the judiciary’s position that implementation of the new Rules was kept in abeyance for all practical purposes. The First Bench made the latest observations while hearing a PIL plea moved by an advocate seeking to install CCTV cameras in all the courts in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Source: The Hindu July 26, 2016 19:03 UTC