The four Bar associations that are active at the Madras High Court’s principal bench in Chennai made a joint representation before Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala
The bar members made their view known to a special committee comprising four judges which was set up by Madras High Court Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala to send its recommendations to the Supreme Court.
Lawyers lament that the MHAA, which is the oldest lawyers' body in Asia, is not what it used to be in the first 100 years of its existence because of party politics.
MHAA passed a resolution condemning CAT Judicial Member, Lata Basavaraj Patne, for having asked a senior member of the Bar to "get out" of her court room during a hearing.