India, Feb. 7 -- Chief Justice of Bombay high court, Alok Aradhe, on Thursday said that senior advocate Iqbal Chagla, who passed away on January 12, firmly believed in high legal ethos and would return a brief if he found that a client had acted immorally.

Speaking at the full court reference for the deceased lawyer and a doyen of the Bombay Bar Association, the chief justice recalled Chagla's journey from a degree in history and law at Cambridge to his return to Mumbai due to the passing away of his mother.

Chagla began his practice at the chambers of Kharsedji Bhabha, along with the likes of Soli Sorabjee, and went on to take up major cases such as the split of the legal giant Amarchand Mangaldas and dispute between beverage giants Co...