“He called me names that’s insane!
He is simply pulling my chain!
He called me names he called me goat!
Don’t matter now, will see him in court!”
One of the most so called intelligent species in the entire universe is the Homo Sapiens but I have never understood this simple thing!
How could such a smart species have fight or issue with another human, pause the fight, employ another human or humans and pay that human along with the person with whom he has a fight who himself or herself is forced or coerced to employ another human and pay him or her to continue the same fight in front of another different human or humans who would finally ‘settle’ your fight for you at his or her own time and discretion!
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The word law, attested in Old English as lagu, comes from the Old Norse word lǫg. The singular form lag meant ‘something laid or fixed’ while its plural meant ‘law. The earliest known use of the noun lawyer is in the Middle English period in the writing of William Langland, poet. lawyer is formed within English, by derivation. It is formed from the earlier noun law, combined with the affix ‑ier.
While the Latin root of the word attorney is to attorn. In English, it means to transfer one’s rights and obligations to someone else. Therefore, when we give someone power of attorney, we give them the right to make decisions on our behalf. Plainly, “power of attorney” means the power to act on someone’s behalf.
You would not wish even your worst enemy to run around in courts! If filing a legal document is a pain, then imagine fighting a case in the court! The wait, the expectation, the expenditure and finally if you are lucky, the words, “Case closed”
In any case, there is of course a party who is the loser. You can never have a case where both are winners! Now whether you win or lose you have to pay the lawyer since they have of course worked for you in compiling the documents and other details but there was actually a time when your lawyer was simply your ‘friend’ or ‘accomplice’ who would argue on your behalf and the most important this was that he or she must do that work WITHOUT any fees! Yes! It the earliest lawyers used to work for free!
Now the legal profession has its origins in ancient Greece and Rome. Those days in Greece it was forbidden to take payment for pleading the cause of another but even then that rule was widely flouted.
The ban on fees was abolished by Emperor Claudius, who legalized advocacy as a profession and allowed the Roman advocates to become the first lawyers who could practice openly and charge fees for their services—but he also imposed a fee ceiling of 10,000 sesterces! At that time though it was supposed to be one of the lowest paid ‘profession’.
Of course later on as the laws became more complex and government got more control; the widely read ‘lawyers’ or ‘advocates’ came into picture who were very well read and knew all the laws to either ‘rescue’ or ‘trap’ their or other clients!
Unfortunately the root of the matter that who is right or who is guilty has now many times become weak. If you have a good liar…I mean Lawyer, you can make your case accordingly and win!
If you are a person with no connections (read less money or no money!) then you can expect your case to be heard as late as possible with little or no hope!
Not to mention the legal lingo is so complicated and lengthy! In one of the list of the funniest cases this one case was found to be funny because no one could actually understand what was trying to be conveyed! Like the Professor in 3 idiots says, “What do you want to say!?” If you do not believe me then this is the summary reproduced as it is! Please let me know what it means!
“The summum bonum of the aforesaid discussion is that all the aforesaid material which existed before the learned Executing Court standing slighted besides their impact standing untenably undermined by him whereupon the ensuing sequel therefrom is of the learned Executing Court while pronouncing its impugned rendition overlooking the relevant and germane evidence besides its not appreciating its worth. Consequently, the order impugned suffers from a gross absurdity and perversity of misappreciation of material on record.”
I am guessing he was distantly related to one MP in Trivandrum!
In a news report in a paper (allright accurately the report was online since I do not read papers nowadays!) given some days back apparently, more than five crore cases are pending in various courts, including district courts, high courts and the Supreme Court.
The shocking thing is that According to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), nearly 2.45 lakh cases are pending in high courts which are 20 to 30 years old!
Justice definitely denied…Let us hope that at least future generations do not need a third party to solve their problems which they could have solved by themselves! Talking about court and cases reminds me of the birthday celebrity Murali Karthikeyan Muthuraman or Karthik and his epic scenes in the movie Mouna ragam!
Maybe watch the Mr Chandramouli scene and sleep happily!
Shubh ratri!
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