PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 301
Shri Venkataraman : He has aken the argument out of my mouth.
Dr. Ambedkar: I do not accept logic ; I accept expediency.
Shri Venkataraman : ‘So I shall proceed on the basis that there is no logic......
Mr. Chairman : May I ask the hon. Minister if a question of fundamental rights under article 22 is not involved in this?
Dr. Ambedkar: We have just now heard from several Judges that they are prepared to make classifications.
Shri Venkataraman : Article 22 of the Constitution gives the right to legal practitioners to appear in all courts. This Act will certainly be challenged by some enterprising lawyer some day and there is no doubt about it.
Apart from that I want to bring to the attention of the Hon. Minister that he will lose nothing by deleting part (a) of the proviso to clause 2. I understand that in Bombay also they have abolished the distinction between the advocates of the original side and the advocates of the appellate side…..
Dr. Ambedkar: They allow them to go from one side to the other after a certain period.
Shri Venkataraman: The practice which was hitherto prevailing of practitioners on the appellate side not being entitled to appear in cases on the original side has gone and today the preactitioners on the appellate side can still appear on the original side as in the Madras High Court. So far as the Madras high Court is concerned there is no distinction between a practitioner on the appellate side and a practitioner on the original side. An advocate of the Madras High Court can appear on both the appellate and original sides……
Dr. Ambedkar: They go without shoes also.
Shri Venkataraman: There are customs and customs. I can see quite a few of people here which would be appalling to my countrymen.
We are not concerned with footwear here but with the legal rights of the practitioners. A practitioner of the Bombay High