Sir Shadi Lal:-

This appeal has been brought by an advocate of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad from a judgment of that Court convicting him of professional misconduct and suspending him from practice for a period of three months. The appellant, Mr. Shiva Narain Jafa, was practising as an advocate at Badaun, a district situated in the United Provinces of India; and in the beginning of 1927 he was engaged to defend a suit instituted by one Bhagwant Singh, against two brothers, Bhau Singh and Lachhman Singh. On 22nd January 1927, he filed in the Court of the District Judge, who was hearing the case, a vakalatnama (power of attorney) signed by both the defendants. It appears that they were, at that time, undergoing imprisonment for certain offences, of which they had been convicted; and the appellant, who had been paid only a portion of his fee, submitted on 8th March 1927, an application to the District Judge in these terms :

In the above case it is submitted that I have been looking after this case on behalf of my clients almost from the beginning of January up to this time. The pairokars of the clients have, up to this time, paid me Rs. 140. Now a new Act has come into force