In a heated episode in the Gujarat High Court, the Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association (GHCAA) President Brijesh Trivedi spoke in a loud voice at the Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and said that she never allows lawyers including Senior Advocates to complete their arguments.

The unfortunate ruckus occurred when the Bench of Chief Justice Agarwal and Justice Pranav Trivedi were hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) related to the issue of illegal constructions on Friday.

As per the video streaming, Trivedi started speaking in a loud voice with Chief Justice Agarwal.

During the hearing, Agarwal requested calmly, “Mr Counsel, please let me complete. I was making some statements. I was asking you something, but you did not allow me to complete my question,”

“This is not the way a court should decide a pending matter, please allow me to complete my sentence, and understand the question. It was my mistake to have understood the question beforehand and I am sorry for that,” apologised the bar president, but in a resentful voice.

Listening to Trivedi’s heated behaviour, Chief Justice was seen looking to the roof and seemed to have pondered on some thoughts, while Trivedi again burst.

“This is how your ladyship wants to listen without even permitting the advocates to speak, that is enough, your ladyship may leave the matter, place it before another appropriate bench. This is not how your ladyship should behave, looking somewhere else. My request is to release the matter,” Trivedi said.

“Ladyship is looking at the sky, this has not happened in this court in 65 years,” he added.

Meanwhile, Agarwal requested Trivedi “to not create a scene” and not to raise a finger to the court.

To which Trivedi said that ‘it is the other way around’.

While it seemed that Trivedi was storming out of the courtroom, he came back to accuse the chief justice of being an “overspeaking judge” whom every senior lawyer has been “tolerating”.

“Every senior advocate, advocate of the Court, has been very kind enough to tolerate this. I had in the 2023 year used a nice quotation of Lord Francis Bacon. I don’t want to repeat it. I hope your ladyship remembers that... I am not a judge, it is about an overspeaking judge,” he said.

The aforementioned quote refers to Lord Francis Bacon’s book ‘The Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall; of Judicature’, in which he proposed “patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal”.