NEW DELHI: Admitting that ED erred in summoning senior advocates Arvind Datar and Pratap Venugopal for rendering authorized opinions to shoppers in a laundering case, lawyer common R Venkataramani Monday informed Supreme Court docket that each one probe companies have been requested to not commit this error in future.“We’ll body tips on this regard,” AG informed a bench of CJI B R Gavai and Justice Okay Vinod Chandran whereas it was listening to a suo motu case relating to the summons, which have been later withdrawn.“ED officers are crossing all limits. They have to know that below legislation, communication between a lawyer and his shopper is a privileged communication,” Gavai mentioned.If a lawyer is concerned in crime, legislation will take its personal course: CJINonetheless, if a lawyer is concerned in against the law, legislation will take its personal course,” CJI Gavai mentioned. SC would take up petitions filed by varied bar associations on July 29 to aim to put down complete tips on this regard, he added.On the joint pleas of SCBA president Vikas Singh, SC Advocates-on-Report president Vipin Nair, senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Vijay Hansaria, the CJI-led bench mentioned it will body tips for companies and bar them from summoning advocates for authorized opinion or recommendation rendered to shoppers dealing with prosecution.Whereas agreeing with AG, solicitor common Tushar Mehta identified one other illness afflicting some within the authorized professions. “It’s equally fallacious on the a part of advocates, who seem for or advise a shopper, to create a deliberate narrative in favour of their shopper and in opposition to the probe company via social media earlier than and after submitting of a petition in a courtroom. Attorneys should follow their obligation of presenting the case earlier than the courtroom,” he mentioned.Mehta mentioned, “The communication between a lawyer and his shopper is little doubt privileged and which have to be immune from investigation, However would a lawyer’s motion in making a narrative for his shopper exterior the courtroom additionally benefit from the standing of a privileged communication? Would it not not quantity to an try to affect the general public and judiciary a few case?”CJI Gavai requested, “Have you ever ever discovered a judgment or order of a courtroom getting swayed or influenced by such narratives spun by attorneys exterior the courtroom? We go by details and submissions within the courtroom and don’t even watch or learn what the attorneys communicate exterior the courtroom in regards to the case.” Mehta mentioned the issuance of summons to Datar was dropped at the discover of the ‘highest govt’ and inside six hours a round was issued by the ED barring its officers from issuing summons to any advocate. Singh, Nair and Hansaria mentioned issuance of summons to advocates by probe companies would have a chilling impact on the independence of the authorized occupation.