Gujarat high court tells lawyers to use real names

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has gotten confused by the online identities of many lawyers and has asked them to change their usernames on Zoom to their real names, so that their real identity is displayed on the screen when they request the HC to allow entry into the virtual courtroom.

As the high court is hearing cases during the lockdown period through video conferencing on Zoom, its administration finds it a real challenge to allow people with ‘abstract display names’ or mostly ‘Admin’ to be part of the case hearing.

Confused by these online identities, the HC has requested lawyers to see that when they call their actual, correct full name is displayed on screen when joining the court session on Zoom.

The chief justice directed the HC’s registrar general to not allow any lawyer without correct identity – the actual full name – inside the virtual courtroom. The registrar general has issued a circular saying, “If the display name of a participant to join VC hearing session does not display full proper name of the advocate, such advocate will not be allowed entry in the VC hearing session.”

Before issuing this warning, the HC requested all lawyers to identify themselves by their real full names by changing their usernames. “Many advocates do not have their actual correct full name as display name on the screen while joining the sessions. Many a times, the name displayed is either some username or just the first name without surname, or ‘Admin’ or some abstract display name which might have been used for joining Zoom sessions for some other purpose from the same device. This creates hardship for both the court as well as the advocates, as it becomes difficult to identify who is intending to join the video conferencing hearing session,” the HC circular reads.

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