This is actually a poem to advice law students who want to start practice directly in Supreme Court. This poem was composed by me. This poem is in form of a dialogue between two lama on how such a law student can obtain skills for arguing in Supreme Court.
In the mountain of
Tibet
Younger Lama asked
a purely hypothetical question,
“Assume for a moment
That a fresh law graduate
Decides to start practice in
Supreme Court!
He has no knowledge
Of Trial Court or High Court
practice
He joins office of a Senior
Advocate
Who hardly gets any time to teach
Now and then, Junior Advocate gets chance
To learn to ask for pass overs, keep backs and
adjournments
Occasionally, he gets chance to
argue and shine up
In a matter where there are no hopes
And he gets depressed by losing it
He sits in court and listens to
other matters
But since he has no access to any casepaper
books,
He is unable to understand
Context in which these arguments
are being made
He learns mainly by
Hanging around in
Supreme Court!
Is there a better way by which he can learn?”
Younger Lama asked
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Since the question was purely hypothetical,
Elder Lama gave a hypothetical answer,
“Assume for a moment
That in Supreme Court,
There is a library of Upcoming
Appeals
Which are coming up for final hearings
The junior advocate will go in this
library,
He will sign in a register,
indicating
Upcoming appeal which he wants to
study
Librarian will give him extra paper
book of this appeal
On condition that he will be free
to make pencil notes,
But he will not copy anything from
paper book,
Nor will he take paper book out of
the library room.
The junior advocate will study the
case,
Will make his pencil notes and
Will return the paper book to
librarian
He will then get an opportunity
To research on the upcoming case
And he will also get chance to listen
and to see
How the case is actually argued in
court.
In this way he can learn faster.”
Elder Lama replied.
Haresh Raichura
Ps. In US
Supreme Court, there may be such a library.
Because, this description of library is found in novel “Pelican Brief”
by John Grisham
