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B.A. LL.B (HONS) 5 Year Integrated Course

Session: 2019-2020

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AVANI LEKHARA Mrs. PRIYANKA KHAITAN
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Semester- II, SEC – A

University five year law college

University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
 THE BAR

Q. Express Mr. Chagla’s views expressed in the chapter ‘The Bar’.

Justice M. C. Chagla is one of the most celebrated judges of Independent

India. He was the First Indian and the longest serving Chief justice of the
Bombay High court. Being the first lawyer in his family, he joined the bar as a
stranger, walking into chambers like Inverarity, Bhulabhai, Jinnah and Setalvad.
He talks of his days at the bar, the difficulty in getting briefs at the rudimentary
stage, the judges who encouraged rookies to argue in court and excitement to
watch classic cricket being played at the club by the High Court. Not before
long he too came to be considered a dependable lawyer who could be safely
entrusted to plead the client‘s case and solicitor‘s brief with ingenuity and
resourcefulness. His name was also added in the shining galaxy of legal
luminaries. Chagla taught law at Government Law College, Bombay and gained
the professorship. In 1941, Chagla was elevated to the puisne judgeship and he
became the puisne Judge on 4th August. During this tenure, he built a fair name
for his prompt dispatch coupled with a humane concern. He also passed some
remarkable verdicts from the income tax Bench. He also told about that law
teaches us great disciplines for mind as verbosity and diffuses are foreign to a
well trained legal mind. According to Mr. Chagla advocate must be both
fearless and fair. He refused to cite so many authorities with the arguments
when the principle of law is well settled. Moreover, he said that lawyers play an
important role in politics because they alone can bring to politics a mental
outlook. It was his great satisfaction that in his Court, he never displayed
rudeness or brusqueness to his juniors. Though a judge he disliked to live in an
ivory tower or remain detached from the social, cultural and educational
activities. And truly he remained a part of the scene. His services as the Vice
Chancellor of the Bombay University were noteworthy. Finally, he advice
young aspirants at the bar that they must work hard and one should faith in him.
So, the key to success is the art of distinguishing relevant from irrelevvant.
Justice Chagla hasn’t reserved himself when it comes to his command on the
language, making the dictionary a full time companion. Believing it to be his
duty, he has left an account of various experiences in his career, for the posterity
to learn from, creating roses for us in the December of his life.