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CJI asks law students to practice ‘cause lawyering’
Why it is in news?
- Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Dipak Misra called upon law students to engage in the practice of ‘cause lawyering’ and develop the idea of serviceability to law by taking up pro bono cases to protect human rights and rights of individuals.
- On the topic ‘Role of Lawyers in the Dispensation of Justice Delivery System’.
- Speaking on the personal capabilities of a lawyer, Justice Misra emphasised two aspects saying that it was wrong to say that lawyers practice only to earn money; rather lawyers as a class are supposed to do service to society like that of the judiciary as an institution and protect human values.
- In some judgments of the Supreme Court, it has been mentioned about the serviceability of the institution and the lawyers are to develop the idea of serviceability to the cause of law and to the cause of adjudication by believing in cause lawyering.
Stand for the law
- Quoting Shakespeare, Dr. Samual Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Mahadev Prasad Singh extensively in his address, the CJI told the students to believe and stand for the law. “When you practice law, you must hold the brief for your client and do the best as the client should have done.”
- Speaking on the Lincoln’s concept of lawyering, he asked the students to be very articulate, passionate and to have a tremendous sense of intellectual honesty.
- On the duties of lawyers, the CJI said: “It is the duty of a lawyer to argue forcefully, articulately and passionately but without aggressiveness.”
- He also askepd the students to continuously study for self-improvement.
- “Unless you are continuously involved in educating yourself, there is a danger” .
Source
The Hindu