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(a) Letters Patent (Lahore),cl. 8---"Reasonable cause" for action against Advocate-Guilty of contempt of foreign Court. It has never been doubted that a contempt of Court by a member of the legal profession is a "reasonable cause" for taking disciplinary proceedings against him, the reason being that any such conduct on the part of an Advocate reveals a mental defect which so long as it lasts, renders him unfit to remain a part of the system which -he seeks to damage by bringing it into contempt. It does not make the slightest difference whether the contempt of a Court is committed in that Court, or in a subordinate Court, or in a superior Court, or on the roadside, or in a club room in Pakistan or outside Pakistan. Any allegation which undermines the confidence of the public in a Court of justice is a contempt of that Court. And public confidence in a Court is undermined as much by attributing dishonesty and corruption as partiality or incompetency to it. "The arraignment of the justice of the Judges" said Mr. Justice Wilmot, "is arraigning the King's justice; it is an impeachment of his wisdom and goodness in the choice of his judges and excites in the minds of the people a general dissatisfaction with all judicial determinations, and indisposes their minds to obey them; and whenever men's allegiance to the law is so fundamentally shaken, it is the most fatal and most dangerous obstruction of justice". (b) Contempt--- JUDGMENT MUHAMMAD MUNIR, C. J.---These proceedings against Dr. K. S. Choudhry, Barrister-at-Law, whose name is borne on the roll of Advocates of this Court, have been initiated on the receipt of a letter from the Deputy Registrar of the Bombay High Court, informing the Registrar of this Court that Dr: Choudhry has been convicted key the Bombay High Court of the contempt of a subordinate Court, and suggesting that such action "gas Their Lordships may deem fit" be taken against him. The letter is accompanied by a copy of the judgment of Mr. Justice Rajadhyaksha and Mr. Justice Vyas, by which the Doctor was found guilty of contempt and sentenced to a fine of Rs. 1,000. The registrar has placed these papers before us for such action as this Court…

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