Story of a Junior Advocate who got chance to fly in helicopter in his first case…

He had just joined office of a Senior Advocate in Kolkata. His senior was retained by Tata group of companies which had cases in various courts.

Senior Advocate assigned one of these cases to this new junior advocate.

Junior Advocate worked so hard that company officials were very much impressed. And they requested Senior Advocate to assign their cases in Assam to this Junior Advocate.

The Senior Advocate agreed.

Then on every date, the company flew this junior advocate to Assam in their Helicopter…

The name of this Junior advocate was S. B. Sanyal. Later he became a High Court Judge. Then after retirement, he came to practice in Supreme Court.

Here, one day, he had told me above story.

Haresh Raichura 3/12/2017

I am not sure about provision. But a week ago, a husband in a divorce ongoing case sought advice on phone. I suggested him to make an application to Judge that now at this stage he wishes to solve dispute amicably through mediation.

He did make application. The Judge halted on going evidence and adjourned the case. The parties are now in process of settling their dispute amicably.

I think a clarification is necessary by superior courts to make mediation possible at any stage in a family dispute case.