November 18, 2015

Two Lama discuss how Judges evaluate Lawyers On Eve of Retirement of Hon’ble Chief Justice H.L. Dattu

On Eve of Retirement of
Hon’ble Chief Justice H.L. Dattu

Two Lama discuss how Judges evaluate Lawyers.
(1)
Many years ago in a High Court
Two eminent Judges were listening to
Ferocious arguments
Of a ferocious Lawyer.

Suddenly he collapsed on ground

Speed of his heartbeats exceeded
Speed of his ferocious arguments.

For a moment his heartbeats
Stopped beating and stood still

And in an ambulance
He was rushed to a hospital
(2)
That day evening
After court hours were over
Two judges went to Hospital
To see the Advocate
And to hear his further arguments if any.

The advocate was well enough
On his way to recovery
But not well enough
To continue his ferocious arguments.
(3)
While returning from Hospital,
Elder Judge asked Younger Judge,
“How do you rate this Lawyer?”

“He is a good advocate,
But not a good human being”
Elder judge replied with sadness in his voice.

(4)
The two Judges were unaware
That Destiny was passing by
And was listening to their conversation
..1
That very night,
Destiny wrote in their books
That these two Judges
Shall retire as
Chief Justice of India.

And so it happened.
(5)
In far mountains of Tibet

Younger Lama asked Elder Lama
“Is it possible for
A Good Human Being
To become a Good Lawyer also?

“If a Good Lawyer and
A Good Human Being,
Both are asked to live together
In one single Human body,
Is it not possible that
The Good Lawyer may slay
The Good Human being?”
Younger Lama asked like a skeptic

Elder Lama replied,
“It is possible for a Good Lawyer
And a Good Human Being both
To live together in one single body.

“Imagine his body as a building.
On first floor,
The Good Human Being lives.
On ground floor,
The good lawyer lives.

And in his basement
All his sins and vices live”.

(6)
Younger Lama asked further
“How Lawyers will remember
Chief Justice H.L. Dattu?”

Elder Lama replied.
..2
“Lawyers remember Judges
For various reasons.
But I remember him
For his following sentence

“Our Legal system has made life
Too easy for criminals
and too Difficult
for Law abiding Citizens”
(2012(8)SCC 495 para 18)

Younger Lama was surprised
So he asked further

“But what is special
In this statement?

Is it not true that
Everyone knows
Truth in this statement?”

Elder Lama replied,
“When a Layman or a Lawyer
Makes such a statement,
There is nothing special in this statement.

But when a Supreme Court Judge
Is constrained to say these words,

It means that
The tide is about to turn”.
          
- Haresh Raichura                                                                                Advocate-On-Record
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