S24 Dignity and Mutual Respects in Court Rooms

Do you know that Court Room is perhaps the only place in world where every  Advocates looks at each other with equal dignity and respect ? A lawyer may have come to court in Rolls Royal car. But once inside Court Room, he will give equal respect even to a lawyer who may have come on a bicycle. Even Attorney General or the most nation wide famous senior advocate will treat a junior Advocate with equal dignity and respect inside a court room. Outside Court Room, the whole world is full of rankism. People with higher power have higher ranks. Those with lower ranks have lower power. Abuses based on ranks will be found almost present in every interaction. Dignity and Respects between ranks will be often missing in general world.. In Supreme Court's Court Rooms, I have experiences of having been treated with utmost dignity and utmost respect even by top Lawyers of India. Outside Court Room, they may not even notice or recognise us. That is a different thing. But inside Court Room there is always a decorum of dignity and mutual respect. This is the convention of this great profession. This is the tradition of our profession since time immemorial.-  Haresh Raichura 30/10/16

S23 Two valuable tips for Law Students, Interns and for Young Lawyers.

If you are a Law student, if you are a first generation in law, then you will have to work harder than others.

If you feel inclined, you can start working from college days by making and daily updating two registers.

1) A register of books you have read. Late Attorney General M C Setalvad used to keep register of books he had read. It's colums can show Sr.No., Title of Book, Name of Author, year of publication, number of pages and Dates on which you have read book.

2) Register of Law Reports of Cases you have actually read. It's columns can be Sr.No, Title of Case, Names of Judges, Law and sections involved and Points as you understood from cases, dates on which read.

After taking law degree, when you will join Bar, you may feel edge over others if you have these two registers. For job interview if any, these will be good testimonials to show that you are not lazy and you are capable of hard work.

Haresh Raichura 30/10/16

LR21 New generation may never see such types of lawyers, the Lawyers who used to bow to court building while entering it and leaving it.

New generation may never see such types of lawyers, the Lawyers who used to bow to court building while entering it and leaving it.

Why should a lawyer bow to a court building while entering it? Why should he bow to it while leaving it? It is a lifeless structure of Court building. What purpose does it serve to bow to it?

This advocate's surname was Bawa. I saw him between 1990 to 2010. Everyday at 9:30 he will enter Supreme Court building. He will put his attaché aside. Will stood still. Hands joined. Head bowed towards dome of Supreme Court. He will pray something. Then he will lift up his attaché and will go towards Bar Room Library 1. He will do his work. In evening, when he will leave Supreme Court building, he will repeat salutation to Supreme Court building, the way he did in morning.

He was a simple Advocate. After 2010 he stopped coming. Once he came and distributed his book in Hindi about meaning of GITA.

His rituals of bowing to Supreme Court building are still a mystery to me. Perhaps new generation will never see this type of Advocates.

Haresh Raichura 29/10/16