From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Thursday chided the Supreme Court lawyers seeking urgent listing of their case for allotment of chambers, saying “we as lawyers used to stand under trees. You are fortunate to get chambers.
He said the lawyers in Delhi should consider themselves fortunate to get chambers as nowhere else they are given the chambers.
The chambers for the Supreme Court advocates are allotted by a committee constituted by the Chief Justice of India and the allotment has to be approved by him. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court’s administrative branch published a list of 468 lawyers having the chambers.
“I’m not talking as CJI. I am talking in the welfare of lawyers. With great difficulty something has happened.Don’t expect palatial chambers. Getting a chamber itself is a big favour,” the CJI said.
He said three judges (Justices B R Gavai, Surya Kant and J K Maheshwari) of the allotment committee spent a lot of time in finalising the list of allottees. “Now about 400-500 people are getting benefit. You want to stall that?”, CJI asked the counsel., but he ultimately agreed to list the matter before a bench next week.
The chambers are allotted as per Supreme Court Lawyers Chambers (Allotment and Occupancy) Rules to advocates-on-record, through whom the petitions are filed in the top court.
