Life and times…

What started off as a day I had perceived to be chaotic ended on a decently high note.

Still reeling from the serial blasts (pretty much pissed and distressed after perusing through the morning newspapers), I headed out to deal with one of my biggest cases for the year.

Nearly 40 days had passed since I was unceremoniously handed the case, more so I was expecting for the matter to be adjourned and some more drafting and filing around the corner (that’s the bloody problem with the system, the paper work never ends, there are affidavits, counter affidavits, replies, rejoinders, transfer petitions, notifications, notices, service of notices, ) and lord if you don’t maintain a diary you can get screwed ( for the record I still don’t maintain a proper diary, my court clerk does it for and lord he is bad, but I never learn).

So anyways I was at the wheel of my car when it struck me that I had forgotten the case papers at my study, arghhhh!!!!

After some last minute readings and sorting at the office, I was off to court, only to realise that my fly had given way, no ways was I going to walk in to the Supreme Court Of India, with my fly undone, (spent the rest of the day at Court trying to cover my modesty with the British relic, the all hated black gown , donned by the Supreme Court lawyers), ( I have probably never really appreciated that darned gown before)

Mondays and Fridays are Miscellaneous days, which in layman terms means chaos, hundreds of matters on board, with most matters lasting not more than a few minutes, so if you are amongst those who have many matters in different courts it can be quite a workout.

Luckily for me I had only one matter of any significance, deep down I really wanted a closure with the darned case, there were way too many issues of no significance, more like every one was hell bent on making a mountain out of a mole hill, moreover the client had declared bankruptcy during the course of the legal proceedings and we were suffering huge losses.

My boss was equally sick of the case, (for all we care the Ja pan ese surr ogate child just had to go back to Japan and India ( Ministry of External Affiars) had way too many issues of its own to deal with a baby born to a Ja pan ese man.

Just a pointer, never deal with the J’s all their Ministers are mad, snooty and stuck up, and the clients never want to pay, for crying out loud, I haven’t met a more stuck up race.

There was complete chaos 18 minutes before the hearing, the boss was freaking out over some documents, the photocopier in the library was out of order, the court clerk went missing as usual, and the media was circling around like vultures over a dying prey. Just a perfect day in my life.

With less than 10 minutes, the boss the AOR and me stepped into the court room, the boss found a cosy chair for herself while the AOR and I were standing at the back of the courtroom and glancing over some papers, when he told me that just the day before one of the judges at the Bench was stuck with his wife in an elevator for 4 hours and was mighty pissed about it.

I couldn’t help but think of the mood he must be in and about the poor person who must have lost his job.

But to cut the long story short, it all went well after all and we got the order we wanted (pretty much won the case).. phew……

Well, so that was today, tomorrow shall be another adventure, I have two huge matters in the morning, and as usual I haven’t read the files (one of them is a dowry death case and the pictures produced as evidence were just down right gory and depressing, so have put them aside to be read in the loo early tomorrow morning,), as for the other one I was just too bored to read the darned case, thus will have my court clerk read them to me while I am driving to court.

All Pray…