Chandigarh, March 9 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has taken a serious note of a resolution passed by the Bar Association, Phul, in Bathinda district, asking members not to file or appear in cases against each other as well as parents and children of Bar body members.

"Definitely, it is against the ethics of the advocacy to pass such a resolution," the high court bench of justice Archana Puri observed while ordering transfer of 20 odd cases between two parties from Bathinda to Patiala district.

The court acted on the 20 odd petitions from one Manjit Singh, who had approached the high court seeking transfer of cases between him and one Satya Devi, mother of a Bar body member, with whom he had property-related disputes.

The plea me...