Advocates-on-record cannot be reduced to mere signing authorities, the Supreme Court observed on Tuesday (October 31), while lambasting the practice of signing off on petitions without examining their.
Recently, CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, speaking at the felicitation programme of newly registered Advocates-on-Record (AORs) which was conducted on this Tuesday, said that AORs are crucial in every case.
In a historic first, N Visakamurthy, an advocate and a person with a visual impairment, has successfully cleared the December 2022 Advocates-on-Record (AoR) Examination conducted by the Supreme.
Pertinently, early in his tenure the CJI had revealed that the reason for having a mentioning officer at the top court was to ensure that senior counsel do not get priority when it came to mentioning.