VOCAL for Local is what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, over and over again. It was about local manufacture and local consumption. This will apply to the service sector, in particular. This isn’t a new phenomenon, though. In a country as vast and as varied as India, the needs are different and the supplies for such needs have to be customised and localised. More importantly, when finances are in a crunch due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the severe economic downturn, there seems to be many more reasons to go local.
Recently, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has shown the way with an interesting order. In a first of its kind, the Court secured the interest of local lawyers by making it mandatory for anyone filing a case to appoint a local lawyer. Under this, it will not be possible to file a case without the appointment of a local lawyer. If any suit is filed without the appointment of a local lawyer, it will be dismissed as incomplete. To remove the imperfection, a local lawyer’s vakalatnama must be invoked.
Secretary and State Bar Member, High Court Bar Association, Jabalpur, Manish Tiwari, has said that on the instructions of Chief Justice (Acting) Sanjay Yadav, Registrar General Rajendra Kumar Wani duly issued the order. Earlier, the High Court Bar Association’s executive member Yash Soni had written a letter to the then chief justice as the bar representative with the request to appoint a local counsel in connection with the filing of cases in the High Court.
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