FIRST SCHEDULE
Senior Advocates
Act: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court Rules 1978
Section Provisions
1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978 1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978. PART VIII MISCELLANEOUS FIRST SCHEDULE SENIOR AND OTHER ADVOCATES 1 A Senior Advocate shall not appear or plead without a junior, except in a case in which he is instructed by an Advocate on record. 2. A Senior Advocate shall not accept instructions to draw pleading, affidavits, advice on evidence or to do any drafting work of an analogous kinds, but this prohibition shall not extend to setting any such matters as aforesaid in consultation with a junior. 3. An enrolled Advocate may, if otherwise qualified, apply to be enrolled in the list of Senior Advocates and any fee payable by him on enrollment shall be reduced by the amount of the fee paid by him on his original enrollment. 4. A Senior Advocate appearing with another Senior Advocate senior to himself, shall be entitled to, and shall be paid, a fee not less than two-thirds of the fee marked on the brief of that other Advocate, and a junior appearing with a Senior Advocate or with any other Advocate senior to himself shall be entitled to, and shall be paid, a fee not less than one-third and not more than two-thirds of the fee marked on the brief of the Senior or other Advocate, but this rule shall not apply in the case of second junior. 5. A Senior Advocate may inform the Court that he will not accept any brief, or any brief of a specified class, without a special fee of a named amount, in addition to the ordinary fee marked on .the brief, and shall not so long as he does not inform the Court to the contrary accept a brief of the specified class without that special fee. 6. An Advocate appearing with a Senior Advocate whose brief is marked with a special fee in accordance with the last preceding rule shall only be entitled to his proper proportion of the ordinary fee marked on the Senior Advocate's brief and not to any proportion of the special fee. 7. Any dispute arising under this Schedule shall be referred to and determined by the Chief Justice.