(1) If there is more than one legal practitioner on behalf of a party in a case, the authority to address the case hearing officer shall be in the order of priority as follows:
(a) In the case of legal practitioners of the same category, in order of seniority as of the date of receipt of the certificate, and
(b) If there are different categories of legal practitioners, in the following order:
(1) Senior Advocate,
(2) Advocate, and
(3) Advocate.
(2) Regardless of what is written in sub-section (1), the legal practitioner who has the right to address the matter later in the priority order may address it first with the permission of the officer who hears the case and the legal practitioner who has the right to address it first in the order of priority.
(3) If there are more than one legal practitioner of the same category and certificate on the same date on behalf of the same party in a case, any one of the legal practitioners agreed upon between them may address it first.
(24) Special privileges of legal practitioners: (1) A legal practitioner shall not be arrested on the way to attend, plead and argue on behalf of any party in any case.
(2) No kind of defamation case can be filed against a legal practitioner on the basis of anything he said in the course of a debate.