Didn't know that time how important it is to be careful in filing Vakalatnama in civil cases and how risky it is. In case of negligence the party has an option to complain the Bar council with which you are registered for negligence and or misconduct. What may be morally and logically right may be legally wrong. You run the risk of being debarred and your dream shattered. A defendant hired my senior Mr. Syed. My Senior in answer to a summon to mark appearance, prepared the pleadings/briefs, that consisted of marking appearance, Application for Leave to Defend, Reply and Replication with lots of factual mistakes vis-à-vis documentary supports. He put my name everywhere, where it is required in the pleadings. He got me to identify the defendant in Affidavits before Oath Commissioner. And virtually pushed me Into the court of sub-judge. The court is situated at Tis Hazari quite far away from the court where he is having his chamber. You are supposed to mark your appearance and file Vakalatnama along with the defendant on this date. Then you receive another summon to apply for leave to defend. Which is followed by elaborate procedures of summoning for arguments on different occasions and filing of different types of application. It takes nearly a year. The humiliation and dishonor I faced at the hands of the honble judge in packed Court got etched in my memory with attendant distaste- it seems forever. besides the danger of complaint to Bar Council for professional misconduct. It was deliberate.

Many seniors here put their juniors and trainees to such travails and risk because they see them as future competitors.

(" Beware of the festering inner wounds for inner wounds surface in the end"Distress no one insofar as you are able, for one cry of anguish can upset the whole world"_ Tazuk Babari Coutesy Times of India)