Chandigarh, Sept. 7 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has asserted that the judicial functioning cannot be permitted to be stone-walled, either by the ordinary litigants or Bar members, in a case where the allegations were that not even a single lawyer was ready to appear before the court as opposite party was the Bar body.

"The process of judicial delivery system must run its even course, unbridled by any litigant, be it a private person or an advocate or bunch of advocates or the advocates together, being members of District Bar Association," the bench of justice Archana Puri observed while rejecting plea from a contractor involved in construction of lawyers' chambers in Sector-43 district courts in Chandigarh.

The petition was fro...