Can any upright Lawyer answer this question honestly?
Who is legally (and not as per the unethical practices adopted) entitled to get costs awarded in a suit? The party i.e. litigant or the lawyer?
ashok kumar (Social Worker) 26 July 2013
Can any upright Lawyer answer this question honestly?
Who is legally (and not as per the unethical practices adopted) entitled to get costs awarded in a suit? The party i.e. litigant or the lawyer?
surjit singh (Assistant) 26 July 2013
the party is entitled to any kind of cost given by court. Advocate can only claim his ligal fee and nothing else, if he does so eithically it is wong and the client can approach the bar counsel with a complainant.
ashok kumar (Social Worker) 26 July 2013
Thanks U SurjeetJi for your correct Reply
Now, kindly let me knwo is tehre any Law, or Section in any Law, or any provision in Advocates Act or any other Act or Law or any case law of Supreme Court, which justifies corroborates your anser
I shall be very obliged for that
surjit singh (Assistant) 29 July 2013
Dear Mr Ashok the crux of every law is the basic common sense. When you are giving a VAKALATNAMA, that means you are giving an authority to argue/defend/persue the case keeping your interest in the matter within the permissible legal parameters. It is entrusting of a trust. And if the advocate goes beyond this trust that means he has breached your trust.
So far receiving of cost is concerned. The cost is given on the order of the Court. At no point of time the court can say that the advocate is entitled to the cost. If the cost is not paid to you you can move of your own before the particular court that the cost has not been paid to him. In this matter I will request you to have a copy of the Advocate's Act and the Bar Council Act & Rules, this will clear all your doubt in the matter.
ashok kumar (Social Worker) 29 July 2013
ashok kumar (Social Worker) 29 July 2013
Surjit Ji has laready answered this question by saying "the party is entitled to any kind of cost given by court. Advocate can only claim his ligal fee and nothing else, if he does so eithically it is wong and the client can approach the bar counsel with a complainant. "
But I am interested in knowing the Law, or Section in any Law, or any provision in Advocates Act or any other Act or Law or any case law of Supreme Court, which justifies corroborates the answer of Surjitji
I shall be very obliged for that