Regulations last checked for updates: May 18, 2024

Title 49 - Transportation last revised: May 14, 2024
§ 1103.25 - Treatment of witnesses, litigants and other counsel.

(a) A practitioner shall always treat adverse witnesses and other litigants with fairness and due consideration. He should never minister to the prejudice of a client in a trial or conduct in a cause. The client has no right to demand that the practitioner representing him abuse the opposing party or indulge in offensive personal attacks.

(b) A practitioner shall not attempt to obstruct Board investigations or corruptly to influence witnesses and potential witnesses during an investigation.

(c) In conducting a case it is improper for a practitioner to allude to the personal history or the personal peculiarities or idiosyncracies of practitioners on the other side, or otherwise engage in personal abuse of other practitioners.

authority: 21 U.S.C. 862; 49 U.S.C. 1303(c), 1321
source: 47 FR 49549, Nov. 1, 1982, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 49 CFR 1103.25