Overview
- Chief Justice BR Gavai called the latest request to defer the Madras Bar Association case "very unfair to the court."
- The court scheduled Senior Advocate Arvind P. Datar's remaining submissions for Friday and fixed the Attorney General's turn for Monday, November 10.
- The bench cautioned that it will close the matter on Monday if Attorney General R Venkataramani does not appear.
- Gavai questioned why a "battery of competent ASGs" could not argue for the Union and suggested the Centre seemed to want the hearing after his November 23 retirement.
- The government’s late‑night plea to refer the challenge to the Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021 to a Constitution Bench remains pending, as petitioners contest provisions on tenure, age limits and selection that they say undermine tribunal independence.