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