NCLT Requires Consent from All Counsel for Physical Hearings to Ensure Fairness and Prevent Rights Infringement.

Proceedings in NCLT - part physical and part virtual hearing - infringement of Fundamental Rights - if the Tribunal wants to go for physical hearing of any particular matter, it may go for it, but, at the same time, it must seek the consent of all the learned counsel appearing in the litigation and only thereafter, it may proceed. However, it should not happen that one set of lawyers would appear before the Tribunal physically and the Tribunal would take up the matter, hear those lawyers and decide the matter without the consent of the other set of lawyers appearing for the different parties. Such practice is bound to create hue and cry. - HC .....

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