Milord said he had read the pleadings and was inclined to grant our client ad-interim protection immediately and in fact proceeded to do so! With new found confidence I told milord that interim protection was of course required but as my senior was on his legs in another big matter before a Division Bench which was likely to spill over into the next day as well, I was seeking the indulgence of having this case placed before milord on the day after. Milord was a very different person in our case.ĭid my client not need interim protection? I got up, gave my appearance slip and mustering courage made the request for accommodation as directed by my senior. In due course our case reached and the court associate called out my senior’s name. My hopes of being accommodated by this milord were looking very dim. Juniors were condescendingly being ticked off as insignificant or irrelevant. He was ridiculing the unready and skewering even the ready counsel. On that particular day, milord was in a particularly foul mood. My senior told me to just go and make the request. He just smiled and assured me that there would be no problem at all before this milord because it was my senior’s vakalatnama which was on record. Therefore, when my senior asked me to seek accommodation from him in an important matter, I was not very certain about the outcome. He was mostly very rude and non-accommodative to juniors. In those days there was a big, fat, grumpy milord who usually sat single despite his seniority.probably an indication of his “popularity” even with his brethren! It was therefore prudent to be prepared in every case to argue the matter if the request for accommodation was refused. These ranged from the pleasant and accommodative to the rude and haughty. On such assignments, much depended on the temperaments of the milords before whom I had to appear. IN my early years at the Bar, a regular role I had to play was to get cases adjourned or kept back in case my senior was preoccupied in other courts or legal fora.
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