Careers of many a talented Lawyers are ruined by bad habit of participating in gossips in Bar Rooms.
Such gossip usually involves some slander about some Judge or some lawyer.
The speaker and listner both become guilty of slander.
In India, process of selection to High Court Judgeship is highly sensitive. A person indulging in listening or speaking slander is not considered of a good virtue for judgeship.
Because, the speaking and listening to slander implies habit of "Judging without evidence".
The person speaking or listening to slander soon becomes a "storehouse of prejudices" which is itself a disqualification for judgeship.
If you are a young lawyer aspiring for judgeship, and if you hear slanders mixed with laughters, going on on some table of Bar Room, just walk away from that table.
Haresh Raichura 22/6/27
