Chennai :The Madras High Court yesterday ordered issue of notice of to its Registrar General on a petition filed by an advocate seeking to declare the decision to run Holiday Family courts here as illegal, unconstitutional, discriminatory and ultra vires of the Family Courts Act.
The bench comprising Chief Justice R K Agrawal and Justice M Sathyanarayanan, which also allowed an impleading petition by the Women Lawyers Association, ordered issue of notice to Secretary to Home (Courts), Tamil Nadu.
In her petition, advocate Sudha Ramalingam submitted that from the date of establishment of Holiday Family Courts on July 10, 2010, women lawyers were put to great hardship as during weekends and other holidays, ignoring the family and professional commitments, Family Court attending advocates were forced to present before the Presiding Officers without any justification.
