MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

by Mohanavadivelan S , SEP 10, 2016

Number of working days lost, dramatized suspension of advocates by the Bar Council of India, Unprecedented siege of the High Court of Madras ,mud-slinging on either sides of bench and the bar, and a muddled state of affairs in the entire judicial administration in the state of tamilnadu, ridiculing by the litigant public and the general public together were all we have seen during the seventy odd days of advocates’ agitation in Tamilnadu. Yet they made neither head or tail. The dust has settled now and forever on the issue and in the hindsight the feeling amongst the right thinking advocates was whether we were justified in protesting the way we did and achieved anything worth the salt. The answer must be a big question mark. They made a mess of everything to be precise. Leaderless was the agitation, thoughtless was the think tank of the agitation, thoroughly beaten was the agitation itself, browbeaten were the advocates themselves. A fictitious and filmsy satisfaction was all left for the limbs of law who knew the Joint Action Committee has duped them to the core of having achieved something, while very many of us knew it was what the powers that be in yhe administration of justice in Tamilnadu had earlier offered which was there to be grabbed throughout and since there was nothing forthcoming as the JAC thought, the same was accepted and it pretended as though something was achieved.

A great sigh of relief on the face of JAC ,which was in the know of things that it double crossed the entire advocates’ community and the agitation it led was a criminal waste and an utter failure. Thanks for the drama. The Joint Action Committee made the short work of the enormous agitation. The agitation had no constructive methods of demonstration but only the ages old rail roko, human chain, sloganeering and the monumental ever existing, ineffective method of boycott of courts. We the advocates never achieved anything with these methods of struggle and will ever be in future also. No sign of an appeal having been preferred against the amendments of section 34 (A) of the Advocates Act, as yet as well which alone would fetch a remedy as close as the one acceptable to everyone. It was too suggested by the bench itself and we as advocates also would know. But the same still not in our scheme of things. Instead we are all ready to do all that are non-sense asking for trouble. Still it is in the balance, whether the demonstrations are over or not, as the announcement was that the agitation was stopped temporarily till the five judge review committee deliberates over the issue, whatever the deliberations they would all still be greek to the JAC and the advocates who forms part of the JAC

LET US NOT SEEM TO BE TURNING THE TAIL.