One more moment to cherish

I could have very well opt to spend the Sunday at my home. My senior had not called me yet, though I took his permission for leave of two days only. I know I might have to face the unexpected and inevitable situations which is common for a practicing lawyer. So in order to keep myself prepared for such scenario, I was in office on Sunday flipping through papers of cases which was posted on Monday. I spent a little extra time to read the second appeals which requires sufficient time to make oneself get a grip on even the basic issue of both fact and law.

After spending almost two and thereabout hours of reading a second appeal in which there is concurrent findings of the courts below against my client, I concluded it had no case and felt I had wasted my time reading it since I would not under normal circumstances argue such case and went ahead to read other cases.

The next day when the item reached, I hardly would have expected the counsel who appeared for the respondent was a senior counsel, and that the Judge would insist me to represent the case and that the my senior, when I text him about the same, would ask me start. (he usually had told me to start in ‘n’ number of cases but this was the first time  where I was asked to start arguing in a case which I felt it had no case at all not because I could not find anything supportive in my client’s favour but simply because the courts below had passed blantantly an extremely biased verdict

This could be possibly one of or may be even the most happiest moment I had in the High Court of Chennai for having engaged in a legal tussle with a competent opponent in pursuance of deliverying justice to the parties.

The Judge who, at the beginning of the argument, was holding a different view from what I was trying to propose to him. Later when he read the evidence of one of the defendants, he began siding with me and the other side senior counsel was became defenseless with nothing but reiterating same points and highlighting self-defeating parts of the Judgment. The Judge himself had suggested remanding the matter for which the other side senior counsel was not in agreement, and thereby he himself, I guess, had paved the way for his own defeat.

The matter is only reserved for orders but the suspense will break only on next week sometime at the day of pronouncement of the judgment.

After all this I was going through, all I could think with pre-occupied mind was to touch the feet of my senior V. Raghavachari, the living legend and get his blessings just like that for all he has provided me and make my life feel as more worth than I ever imagined of

Next to Mother's Love

It's 3 am. i have already woken up. Sleep was evading me since then. For a moment, I tried to erase off the yesterday-close-to-midnight incident. I thought it wasn't even worth thinking about. I had to leave this place permanently(for ever)! After all this is not the place i wished for to be as my residence. Infact it would be last abode i would ever desire to choose.
Then what made be deeply upset? what was that bothing me non-stop?
I dont want to throw the entire blame upon my father for the situation I was put into. INfact, as my cousin bro pointed, I could be the sole reason for what ever i am facing.
The problem is not that I am dependent on my friends to stay, though the cause of my angst flow from the very same fact. The friends I mean The friends alone. I can barely issues with friends who provide me shelter but i could not stand to accept the uninvited and uncessary imposition of self-claimed authority-like over me by people who were no were connected to me except to the extent that they control the lives of my frineds in one sence or the other. I dont mean that the people whom i refer here are bosses of my friends but they are not meant to be opposed in their decision so easily by my friends.
So i packed my bag, as the sun set to rise, and left leaving my travel bag which i think i will take it in a day or two.
The incident - I expressed to the people  not to dictate me. nothing else.

Fortunately or unfortunately my dad called this morning. I had to pass on all the anger, frustration, rage, my father who turned speechless despite having been hurled up with many of my such acts.
I dint care if my cousing bro was with us but I had to for i was too afraid of missing the oppurtunity of securing a good accomodation which was promised by one Guy, possibly a broker.
My father took it too slow. The guy wanted us to meet him int he morning but i was in court thinking my father and bro willtake care. But had to rush to Kalaivanar arangam to go myself to meet the broker with my bro after i was told that my father never met my bro who had come all the way to the arangam to pick my dad and mainly for the sake of me.
When i reached the arangam i was given shock to see my dad chatting with my bro. Had I known that or alteast assured confirminly i would not have delegated my work which was as important for a man who is in jail wants to come out and went all the way to arangam to my bro.
All this pissed me off , so i vent all my frusration and anger my fathr like i never did before possibly.
It continued for long and even after we went there to ANna nagar where we were informed by the broker that he cant meet us today due to his other personal engangement and asked us to meet him the next day.
I burst again at my father and criticised him and blamed him for the failur n the plan. i was not much convinved by my father when he told me that we would meet him the next day
after a long hour of verbal assault i showed no mercy even at the time when we coming back together on our way back to our room
we went to arangam before we came to our place and had dinner in Nair's mess and then my father left to the hotel alone and i came here to this net-cafe to type this and record it down.
I infact despite all felt like i would go with me dad for a walk by the beach as we both have done along with my mon and sis as a family for many many years back when i would not even finished 5th grade
But father seemed a little tired and at his age, it is quite understandable, though he is someone with unbelievable stamina and energitic chap.
However the epic was when I told my dad, when we were sitting arangam, this late evening, that he was sole cause for me to hurl such abuses,
He responded, "Your are my son and if not you than from whom else i would take such things?" I went speechless.

Legally speaking!

The Court is closed for summer vacation which begins from today. I could have chosen to spend this weekend off coolly in Ooty. I refused the Ooty trip offer mainly because I thought staying back would serve me more on the basis of cost-benefit ratio. Think about hanging around in Ooty with two aged lawyers (mid-60s) for two days! It certainly is a disincentive.
I came to office at around 9:00 pm, my usual hours. There ware no clients in the office. I presumed it might be because of vacation which covers the entire month of May. But, soon after, i realized i should be wrong. The Clients were visiting as usual as on during the working days.
I was the only junior advocate who was present in the office so I decided to take instructions from the clients and provided them with possible solution to their problems on my own by rendering them legal opinions.
At first there was one such client, who was anxious if his Crusher factory, with a crore and above of investment, has any unfound legal impediment in view of decision rendered by division bench in Paravathammal granites case numbered in W.P. 12942 of 2011. He was worried if his need to be shut down. [for detailed interaction about the case, click on http://lawcrumbs.blogspot.in/2012/04/summer-counselling.html].  I read the judgment and listened to the facts of the client and advised him he need not bother since he had not violated any conditions laid down by the Tamil Nadu pollution control board. I put down my opinion in words in a letter pad and advised him to use it when he meets my senior, Raghu sir.
After the client met my senior, the client insisted me to accept some monetary consideration. I refused since i thought it was not ethical to take money without a strong justification. To my own surprise, I was told by the client that it was my senior who instructed him to pay that amount to me when the client asked if he was required to pay any amount.

I felt happy, not because of the amount but because of the purpose i had received it.

one of the basic function of lawyers to provide a legal opinion. I did and was rewarded for it!!

Making impossible a possibility

when I began my professional career, I feared about the time I thought I would require to become well verse with certain very basic things which has crucial role to play in the career of a litigating lawyer. Two instances, which I like to cite, would more or less highlight the reasons for the fear. Once, my senior, Raghu sir asked me to read some papers (He asks his juniors to read the case-papers while he would listen). As I started reading, I realized I could be of little help to him. I stuttered, stammered and stopped and when was about to re-start, I was asked in a very surprising tone by my senior who said, “Do you know Tamil?”. I said yes but also said I was not apt at when comes to reading, especially the drafts which are made in Tamil. The next moment he made a sarcastic comment in a very interesting tone, i.e “Dude Read Ttaaameel or else it would be difficult to practice in Madras High Court ”. He called a more experienced junior and asked her to read the papers as I left the room with such angst.

The other incident is when I was trying to read the second appeal, I was instructed not to read by senior’s brother, who is also my senior. The reason he gave for not allowing me read it was that “he himself had taken not less than two years to learn reading second appeal cases”.

Such a statement, especially who hold position as that of a senior, by him did create an impression that it was not easy to read a second appeal cases in such short span of time since at that time it was just 2 to 3 months since I began practicing. I did give up even touching the bundle, if not for the reason I was quite convinced about the difficulty involved in reading the second appeal but least to obey the instruction of him

Having said that, what I am able to do

Nothing unexpected, not too surprsing eithter. I was clever not to attach much value to what was approaching me in the name of relationship staring with most bueatiful alphabe that depicts all about the bond.

The imposter, is not really done any damage to my life but rather only have come as a catalyst which i very much need, especially at this right stage of life to keep me focussed.

I think today probably it will put an end to all the non-sensical atttitude shown by the high attitude ass@#$%. If he still continues with the same deviant behaiour, it is better i ignore and focus on necessary things in life.

I never have been in an atmosphere like I am now. well i believe and always had and have faith in him so far what I am destined to. This things I see around may be because out of fault on my behalf too but the returns i get is not fiar, reasonbale and even doesn't look like connected to my action not in general but in specific towards who direct the returns at me.