​S-114 Senior Advocate’s Rule to visit house of his juniors.

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In 1986, I had just joined chamber of a my Senior Vasant J. Desai. In next week after I had joined,  he pointed out to me that he has a Rule to see the house of Junior who joins his chamber.
So I took him to my house for a cup of tea. He looked around in my house.
Next day, he asked, “Don’t you have a fridge in your home?”
I said, we are planning to buy one after few months. 
He called a distributer of fridge. Next day a fridge was in my house on credit terms of whenever I can pay, I can pay. There were no hard and fast EMI conditions. No cheques were taken for security. 
This senior has profound effect on my thoughts and values. In court rooms, the Judges as well as other seniors,  used to give me respect the moment they learn that I am in office of Vasant J. Desai. One day, I will write at lenghth about him.
In Supreme Court, there has been only one Senior Advocate who had once visited my house to see the conditions in which I lived. 
His name is Justice Fakhruddin. 
The contributions of these seniors have been great in my life.

Haresh Raichura 30/3/17

​S-115 How to restore Good Values of Legal Profession.

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There are two lines. One is small line. It represents good values of legal profession.
Second line is very big. It represent bad values of legal profession. 
You can increase good value of legal profession by cutting short bad values of legal profession. This is a bleeding process. Here force is used to remove bad values of profession. 
Another way is to make the small line (of good value) big by using a  chalk stick and by making this small line far bigger than the line of bad value. This is Gandhian method. It involves love. Instead of force, love is used.
How this can be done? 
Values are higher than ethics.
Good values are transferred from one generation of Lawyers to another generation of Lawyers by Word of Mouth.
Once I dropped few letters to Supreme Court Judges about need to restore Values. None of them replied. But from next month, a new program was started by Supreme Court Bar Association. Every 15 days, a top lawyer of Supreme Court was invited by Bar to give a talk to junior Lawyers about heritage of values of this profession.
This went on for about two months. We learned many things. But then after two months, Bar discontinued these program. 
In my young age, I went in public library and learned about values of profession by reading autobiographies of great Lawyers and Judges. I had read autobiographies of Chief Justice M C Mahajan, Justice M C Chagla, M.C. Setlvad, Books of Lord Denning, Justice Oliver Holmes etc.
Recently I also read autobiography of Fali Nariman on Kindle Amazon Digital edition.
If published, I would like to read Autobiography of Justice M B Shah if he ever writes and publishes. 
Unfortunately, good Judges and good Lawyers are not writing and publishing their autobiography. 
I also read a biography of Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge of US Supreme Court who died recently. 
Such books not only introduce us to good values of profession, but they also help us to see new horizons of Law.
Haresh Raichura 30/3/17