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By Our Tamil Nadu Bureau
CHENNAI, AUG. 24. In the face of intense and united opposition to the 25-point code of conduct for advocates, the Madras High Court today repealed the controversial notification of amendments to rules framed under the Advocates Act. (The amendments, gazetted on July 30, listed 25 activities, which could be construed as `misconduct,' and empowered the court to prevent the erring advocate from entering the court premises for a period upto one year.) The decision to repeal the amendments was announced by the Registrar-General, J.A.K. Sampath Kumar, after the Chief Justice, Subhashan Reddy, had separately met the Administrative Committee comprising top six judges, the office-bearers of various associations and all judges. The Administrative Committee favoured the withdrawal of the Code; the office-bearers of the associations made it clear that they would resume work provided the notification was withdrawn. The late-evening decision has come a day after the Full Court led by the Chief Justice decided against withdrawing the code, and cleared the filing of a detailed counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court, which is seized of a petition from Traffic K.R. Ramaswamy on the issue. Meeting with lawyers In the afternoon, the Madras High Court Advocates Association president, S. Prabakaran, the Madras Bar Association president, K.R. Tamizhmani, and the Women Lawyers Association president, K. Santhakumari, made a statement expressing the willingness of their members to resume work once the notification was withdrawn. Later, Mr. Justice Reddy had a meeting with his companion Judges. Asked to make a choice, almost all the Judges signed favouring the repeal of the conduct rules. The decision was made public with the Registrar-General making a one-line statement, "amendments made to the Advocates Act is repealed with immediate effect in view of the representations made by the MHAA, MBA and the WLA, in the presence of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu Chairman, R. Dhanapal Raj." Talking to The Hindu , Mr. Dhanapal Raj, said, "now that the demand of the advocate fraternity has been met in full, the striking advocates are requested to call off the agitation in the interest of the public." Federation happy The Erode-based Federation of District and Subordinate Courts Bar Associations of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry welcomed the decision to repeal the amendments, but said a decision on withdrawing their court boycott would be taken only on August 26 when the general council of the Federation meets in Salem. However, the Federation secretary, P. Thirumalairajan, said a renewed demand for the shifting of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court would be made at the Salem meeting. Meanwhile, the VII Metropolitan Magistrate in Chennai, Bharanidharan, rejected the bail plea of 63 advocates who were arrested yesterday. This morning four more advocates courted arrest.
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