Chandigarh, July 29 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court lawyers on Tuesday decided to go on a three-day strike in support of work suspension call given by the different district Bar associations in two states and Chandigarh against the Legal Aid Defence Counsel System (LADCS) policy. The move comes even as the high court asserted that disruption of judicial work can't be permitted,

"We have reiterated our sentiments to the learned members of the Bar, that denial of access to justice, to the common litigant, would be a failure on the part of the entire justice delivery system, which cannot be permitted," the acting chief justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra observed while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) on the issue in the morning. Th...