Practising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts

A pleader who practises as counsel in a Magistrate's Court is forbidden from sitting as the Magistrate in that same court or in any court within its local jurisdiction. The rule prevents a lawyer from becoming the presiding magistrate where they regularly represent parties. Such a pleader must not preside over cases in those courts.

Priya regularly appears as a pleader in her local Magistrate's Court for criminal matters. Under this rule, she cannot be appointed to sit as the Magistrate in that Court or in any Court within that Court's local jurisdiction, so she would be disqualified from presiding there.