Milord has risen early
Setting a new record
The list moved smoothly
Without any discord
Milord is quite quick
And ever so sporting
But he is often a victim
Of media’s wrong reporting
Milord loves to keep it simple
Likes counsel to be brief
Some people wrongly surmise
That he wants to deny relief
Milord is known to be jovial
He doesn’t like being stern
He knows haste is never good
Hence he likes to adjourn
Milord gives respondents
Sufficient time for a reply
And in fairness to Petitioners
He gives “Liberty to apply!”
Yet unfair men from media
Take audiences for a ride
With contumacious rumours
That Milord doesn’t decide!
(Raju Z Moray is an advocate who practices law in the Bombay High Court when not puncturing bloated egos. He is the creator of ‘Gobble D. Gook’, his alter-ego, who figured in the ‘Court Jester’ columns of ‘The Lawyers’.)
