Satya Prakash
New Delhi, November 20
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud has urged senior advocates to not deal with their juniors as slaves and pay them respectable salaries, saying this type of follow should change. “For a lot too lengthy, we have now regarded children in our occupation as slave employees. As a result of that’s how we grew up…That is the outdated ragging precept in Delhi College that those that have been ragged, would at all times go on to rag individuals who have been under them. It was like passing on the blessings of being ragged,” mentioned Justice Chandrachud, who took over because the fiftieth CJI on November 9.
Talking at a perform organised by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to felicitate him on Saturday night, Justice Chandrachud mentioned, “Some younger legal professionals don’t even have chambers the place they’re paid cash…If you’re staying in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru or Kolkata, how a lot does it value for a younger lawyer to outlive? They’ve lease to pay, transportation, meals…This should change, and the burden of doing that’s on us, as senior members of the occupation.” He even narrated a private anecdote when a classmate had requested him throughout his Campus Legislation Centre days as to what he would do after LLB and the way he would survive within the authorized occupation.
“Whilst you have top-notch legal professionals within the Supreme Court docket who would have seven or eight videoconferencing screens open to allow them to transfer from one courtroom to a different with a click on of the mouse, but you have got legal professionals, who needed to nearly dwell from hand to mouth in the course of the pandemic,” the CJI mentioned. He mentioned, “This construction of the authorized occupation, which is patriarchal and generally caste-based… it has to vary in order that we, as legal professionals, discharge our duties to our society to make the authorized occupation confide in individuals from totally different communities and marginalised teams in our society.”
