ORDER : Devan Ramachandran J. 1. The days of lockdown new and hitherto unknown to all of us – has been testing to everybody, including the judicial system. 2. Nevertheless, the Courts have been functioning adopting innovative technologies thanks to a substantial extent, on account of the assistance and resolve of the Advocates. 3. When this matter was taken up today in the pre-lunch session, the learned President of the Kerala Advocates' Association, Shri Laxmi Narayanan, made a request before us that the Government of Kerala be directed to issue necessary orders to allow the Advocates to open their Chambers/Offices so as to enable them to pursue their professional requirements. However, the learned Central Government Standing Counsel, Shri Jayasankar V.Nair, submitted that Central Government has neither prohibited nor expressly permitted the opening or operationalising of the Advocates Officers or Chambers and that all such activities will have to be guided by the imperatives of the lockdown guidelines. 4. We then adjourned this matter for a while and took it up post lunch, when Shri Laxmi Narayanan submitted that the proceedings of the forenoon session appears to have been misunderstood by the Media and that it has been reported that there is a clamp-down even on the movement of Advocates supported by valid affidavits and passes to their offices and chambers. 5. We, therefore, make it very clear that we did not, in any manner, prohibit the operationalisation of the offices of the lawyers or their chambers but, only that we do not intent to pass an order allowing them to do so contrary to the guidelines proposed by the State and Central Governments as regards the lockdown. 6. In such circumstances, we deem it apposite and necessary to clarify that our proceedings are not to be mis-interrupted by anyone, including the State Government and its functionaries, to gather an impression that we have, in any manner, stopped Advocates from operating their offices or chambers subject to the guidelines and imperatives of the lockdown and subject to such conditions applicable to citizens who travel for purposes that are unexpendable.