Recently, the Bombay High Court turned down a request from a senior lawyer to list a matter high on the board. The presiding judge reportedly remarked, “We were criticized for sitting on Saturday. I have received more than 500 messages criticizing us for sitting on Saturday. So we have stopped putting anything high on board, or low on board”. This is Raju Z. Moray’s poetic way of looking at this episode.
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Bigwig client and bigwig lawyer
Did not have patience to wait
So their legal team got to work
And managed an early date
It was not just any date
But a non-working Saturday
This set tongues wagging
“Bigwigs have their way!”
Those having Milords number
Did not wait or hesitate
Milord was flooded with queries
From disgruntled to irate
His inbox overflowing
With requests for “out of turn”
Milord became uncomfortable
With headache and heartburn
The media too got in the act
Showing Milords in bad light
And that’s when they realised
That “out of turn” was not right
So next time the bigwig lawyers
Sought an indulgence anew
Milord said you choose your day
But go and stand in the queue!
(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’.)
