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Advocate Kavita Rao lent Rs 5,00,000 to a trader, Mohan Lal, who has not repaid it. Another creditor of…

Rule 9 says that an advocate "should not act or plead in any matter in which he is himself pecuniarily interested", and its Illustration I says he should not act in a…

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Advocate Kavita Rao lent Rs 5,00,000 to a trader, Mohan Lal, who has not repaid it. Another creditor of Mohan Lal files a bankruptcy petition against him and asks Kavita to appear for him in it. Under Rule 9 of the Bar Council of India's Standards of Professional Conduct and Etiquette, as it stands on 1 October 2026, Kavita:

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Rule 9 says that an advocate "should not act or plead in any matter in which he is himself pecuniarily interested", and its Illustration I says he should not act in a bankruptcy petition when he is also a creditor of the bankrupt. Kavita's unpaid loan to Mohan Lal gives her that personal interest. The bar does not depend on whose brief she holds, and neither disclosure nor a free appearance removes her personal stake.

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