MP High Court Bars Lawyers from Filing Affidavits on Behalf of Clients

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Indore Bar Association to issue general guidelines advising lawyers against filing affidavits verifying facts on behalf of their clients.

The Court noted that advocates are not competent to affirm facts concerning incidents they were not witnesses to, and deprecated the practice of supporting applications such as those seeking suspension of sentence with an advocate's sworn affidavits. 

The Registry has been instructed not to accept such applications in the future.

Dismissing the current application supported by an advocate’s affidavit, the Court emphasized the importance of factual verification by the concerned parties themselves.