---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 1103.25"
title: "49"
number: "1103.25"
heading: "Treatment of witnesses, litigants and other counsel."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/1103.25"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 862; 49 U.S.C. 1303(c), 1321.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 49549, Nov. 1, 1982, unless otherwise noted.