Advocates Should Not Solemnize Marriages: Supreme Court

"Advocates or lawyers have many capacities- one being Officers of the Court. Therefore, they should not, while acting as counsel or advocates or their capacity as advocates, undertake or volunteer to solemnize marriages. That can well result in Advocates chambers or offices turning out to be matrimonial “establishment”- a consequence never intended- or perhaps never contemplated by law. However, in their capacity as friends or relatives of the intending spouses, their role as witnesses cannot be ruled out."

Supreme Court
Ilavarasan vs. The Superintendent of Police & Others, Criminal Appeal No(s). of 2023 (Arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 6534 of 2023