Hearing on TN lawyers strike preponed to Feb 25

The Supreme Court today preponed the hearing of petition seeking directions to Tamil Nadu lawyers to resume work forthwith to February 25. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam advanced the hearing when petitioner Muralidharan, an advocate, contended before the court that he could not argue his cases in the Madras High Court due to the lawyer's strike, following clash between lawyers and the police in the High Court. Earlier, while issuing notices to Bar Council of India, Madras High Court Advocate Associations, Madras High Court and State Bar Council had fixed February 27 for hearing of the petition. The Madras High Court had already closed down all the courts in the state as well as in Puducherry till February 24. Chief Justice Balakrishnan had made a personal appeal to the agitating lawyers in Tamil Nadu to return back to work as litigants could not be allowed to suffer due to the strike. Lawyers in the state are, however, not inclined to call off their strike and made it indefinite. The Supreme Court, in its earlier judgement, has made it clear that strike by lawyers was illegal and the petitioner in the present case was relying on the same judgement.

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