Appearance of additional advocate in court

Gulab (Querist) 08 October 2025 This query is : Resolved
If in District i have appointed one Advocate by submitting Vakilpatra. But during any stage of case or at Argument does any other lawyers from same district court or/High Court can represent me on behalf of advocate for whom i filed Vakilpatra.?
If yes what is procedure to make appear another advocate? Also does along with additional advocate does my original advocate can both also appear at same time on my side.?

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If you've appointed an advocate via Vakilpatra, another lawyer from the same or High Court can indeed represent you. This can be done by terminating the current advocate's services and engaging a new one, or by appointing a joint advocate with a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from your current lawyer. If both advocates are from the same firm, formal additional paperwork might not be needed, but if they are individuals, an additional Vakalatnama is usually required.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Expert) 09 October 2025
You have the option of terminating the services of the current lawyer and engage the services of the new lawyer to represent in furtherance or can appoint another lawyer as joint advocate along with the other advocate by obtaining a NOC from the current lawyer to appoint the new lawyer as joint advocate to represent the case along with the previous one jointly

Gulab (Querist) 09 October 2025
Thanks sir for reply . Just wanted to check whether it is necessary that both advocate from same firm? if i need both advocates to represent case.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Expert) 09 October 2025
If both the advocates are from the same firm then the formal additional vakalatnama may not be required, the new advocate can appear on behalf of his firm along with the other advocate who also represents the same firm, however if he is representing i his individual capacity then you may have to follow the route of filing additional vakalatnama

Dr. J C Vashista (Expert) 10 October 2025
You may appoint /drop /replace any one / number of lawyer(s) from anywhere to contest / proceed in your case.

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