I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay if you weren’t able to get a good CLAT score. NLU or not, it doesn’t matter in long run. Just don’t be lazy. Study well. Intern well. Work hard. Be proactive. Have fun.
If it worked for many like me, it will work for you too.❤️
Just a friendly nudge to all the legal eagles out there – if you've got any Judgment/Order that you think the world needs to know about, don't keep it to yourself! Send it over to us at 'blog
@scconline
.com' and we'll make sure it gets the spotlight it deserves.
Unpopular opinion: The Court went soft of Prashant Bhushan because of the huge uproar and the support he received from the legal fraternity and others in general. Him standing firm has a little to do with today’s verdict.
Not all men are predators but all women are bad drivers. Not all men are predators but all women are dramatic. Not all men are predators but all women sleep their way to the top if they are promoted before you. Not all men are predators but all women should know kitchen work.Sure
Papa's friend: My daughter will be joining law school this year & she is already doing internship under an advocate. Can she connect with you if she needs any guidance?
Me: Give her number to me. Guidance ki zarurat to mujhe lag ri hai iss case me. 😂🥲😭
Small 🧵 on giving chances:
An advocate I had interned under during my law school days, told me this when I shared the CV of a student looking for internship
"There are no good or bad CVs.We believe it's our job as seniors to guide young minds & it's more on us than them."
While it’s easy to criticise these people & very tempting to make Corona memes on this, most of these people have no choice. They are not traveling to Goa amidst a pandemic. They are trying to make ends meet. Not everyone has the luxury of working from home or not working at all
Fun Fact: Supreme Court has delivered 85 Judgments in last two weeks. 👏👏👏
Another fun fact: Mujhe har saal bina Holidays ke hi Holiday Homework mil jata hai. 😭😭
If you are planning to have babies, I just want to tell you that I am sitting on the terrace & apparantly watching Crocodile (Lizard) & her Mumma fetch dinner, while answering questions like "Reptiles kyu nahi chalate Cycle?", "Ye bag leke kyu nahi jati school?", etc.
Learning to live with the loss of a loved one is never easy. To those who listened to me but also gave me space to grieve; to those who took up my responsibilities; to those who noticed my absence & checked on me, thank you for giving me hope.
Starting again, one step at a time.
Fashionista
#SonamKapoor
's husband wore sneakers with Sherwani at his wedding reception & she happily posed with him for paparazzi.
This means I can no longer judge my husband for wearing Jeans-tshirt at family weddings.
It was husband's birthday yesterday. Boys made cards for him. Immediately after showing the card to his father, my 6yo goes "Dekh liya? Ab le lun main? Next year bhi ye hi de dooma. Mumma ke birthday pe bhi ye hi de dooma. Papa rub karke Mumma likh dooma" 😂😂😂
All I am trying to say is that it's about time we start looking beyond the School/college names & flashy CVs & start giving people chances.
There is so much more to people's personalities then what they write on that piece of paper.
Me, yesterday: 8 judgments aaye hain aaj. Aise kaun karta hai 😭
FIL: Supreme Court ke judgments to hote bhi bohot lambe hain. 10-20 pages ke!
Me: 10-20? Vo to chote hote hain. Aaj ek 120 ka hai.
FIL: 120!!! Arey baap re!
SC today: hold my 226 pages long verdict.
😭😭😭
Son, after attending regular school for just a little over one year: Mom, holidays ke baad main KG me jaunga?
Me: Yes
Him: To KG me bhi padhna padega kya?
I do not have the heart to tell him... 😭
Little boy came back with a medal today. His School declared no winners in the Sports day but gave Gold medals to all the children who participated for putting themselves out there. What a great learning that you are already a winner if you show up for something.❤️
When you come to know about an acquaintance's grief, the worst thing to do is to ask them "what happened to him? How did he die?". Pay your condolences. Say calming words, if you have any. But please don't pry. It's unkind & triggering.
Grief should never be up for gossip.
When your mom is low key obsessed with the Supreme Court & decides to put this get up together 15 minutes before sending you to school for Republic Day celebration. Special credit to Maasi for always being up for the challenge & also for owning this long forgetten shrug. 😂
“Grief, I've learned, is really just love.
It’s all the love you want to give,
but can’t. All that unspent love gathers up, in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat and in that hollow part of your chest.
Grief is just love with no place to go.” - Jamie Anderson
Now when I have an intern under me Or have a new team member, I give them chances to make mistakes. To ask. To learn.
I do so because I know the value of chances. I am here only because of the chances that people gave me.
I have been living away from home since more than 15 years & I still break into tears every time I say 'Dhyan rakhna, phir milenge thode din me' to my parents. Very overwhelming yet very underrated pain.
Lucknow wale Doston,
This pretty little baby is looking for a home. She is 7 weeks old. No fancy breed. Asli Indian. DM me if you or someone you know would like to adopt her. Please RT for visibility.
@hamzamlakdawala
I honestly want law students to stop pretending like they know everything & that entire burden of samaj sudhar is on their shoulders. Law students are the most annoying category of students. 😂
A very happy Diwali to those who are celebrating.
To those who are feeling emotionally exhausted and missing their loved ones: you are not alone, especially not this year. We will find happiness again. Just hang in there. ❤️
After sucking the last drop of patience from my body, driving me insane & bringing me to tears, this guy just gave me a 'star' for helping him with his homework & now I feel like a horrible person. That's parenthood for anyone looking for insights.
Was in the kitchen, helping MIL when boss called. After the call, MIL said, "Ja tu, kaam aaya hoga". I said no, he called to say "slow down. The only thing that is important right now is taking care of yourself and your family."
My boss is better than yours!
These words honestly made my day. During my internship with this Chamber, there was not a single day when we did not learn. They would ask us at the end of each day what we did & how we'll improve the next day.
I was a student from a college no one had heard of. I was a first gen law student from a small town with no big shot connections.
This chamber gave me a chance to learn.
When I applied for jobs, I was mostly rejected because my CV did not mention any NLU, nor did it mention the name of any influencial person.
My current employers gave me a chance to enter the professional world.
The Constitution Bench of SA Nazeer, BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, V Ramasubramanian and BV Nagarathna, JJ has held that in absence of complainant's direct evidence of bribe, presumption of Public Servant's guilt can be drawn based on other evidence.
Woke up at 5AM to get some work done but now I am just sitting here with a void in my heart, thinking about all that life had promised and given but took away a little too soon.
Dealing with a case under Section 138 NI Act, the Supreme Court has held that conviction cannot be confirmed once parties enter into MoU for amicable settlement of dispute.
#SupremeCourtOfIndia
They did not expect me to know everything. In fact I barely knew anything. They just saw the potential to learn and grow. And so I did and am still doing.
I cannot stop thinking about what happened last night. How do you sleep at night knowing what you’ve done?
Kitne bhi mandir bana lo, Humara bhagwaan tumhe maaf nahi karega.
I am the daughter of a woman who refuses to give up on life and the sister of a woman who laughs and makes us smile despite being shattered. So don't you ever tell me that women are weak.
#InternationalWomensDay
The Supreme Court, in Eastern Book Company v. DB Modak, (2008) 1 SCC 1, the landmark ruling on Copyright law, recognised the practice of segregating or clubbing existing paras in SCC as doing so requires judgment & skill in great measure.
Justice Nazeer of the SC asks the SG - "Mr. Mehta why does SCC citation change/replace the paragraphing in our original judgments? Is it permissible?"
SG - I am not sure if it is.
#CourtroomExchange
I find the query interesting coz of a landmark Supreme Court decision 👇
Just want to take this moment to appreciate the kind of effort that each & every person at
@scconline_
puts in to make SCC so reliable. From checking para numbers to creating headnotes, everything is done with great care.
#DelhiHC
Lawyer gives judgement copy from Indian Kanoon.
Justice Vibhu Bakhru: We are not accepting judgements from Indian Kanoon. This Court has had some bad experience.. in one of the them there was a paragraph that never existed.
#IndianKanoon
@barandbench
I was helping my sister update her resume and it took me almost two days to finally have the courage to change her marital status. Life is cruel and so are these unnecessary details that have nothing to do with a person's caliber.
Did you know that 4 judges were a part of benches in 9 out of 11 Constitution Bench judgments this year? In this roundup, in bring to you everything that you need to know about the Constitution bench judgments of 2020.
The act is absolutely disgusting and cowardly. If you think you can pull a woman down by stooping this low, think again. She is a woman made of steel. We, at
@scconline_
, stand with
@bhumikaindulia
, through thick and thin.
It is abhorrent that one of our team members has to face such hate and be targeted for the good that she is doing.
As an organisation we condemn such shameful behaviour. We will take whatever action is required under the law.
Doing this in the middle of the night while taking care of unwell husband takes special kind of grit. All this because every member of the team is going through something & she didn't want to burden anyone! Show some love to
@LucknawiRooh
❤
Watch SCC Online Weekly Rewind Vol. 1 Episode. 8 ft. Nilufer Bhateja (
@LucknawiRooh
)
Here's a quick rewind of the interesting and important legal stories from the week gone by.
The 8-volume exhaustive Supreme Court Digest on Criminal Procedure Code and Criminal Trial now available! This Digest is a complete source for the entire case law on the subject, from 1950 till date as laid down by the Supreme Court.
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“If judges start sending bouquets or congratulatory letters to a political leader on his political victory, eulogising him on assumption of high office in adulatory terms, the people's confidence in the judiciary will be shaken.”
On Bhagwati J’s fan mail to Indira Gandhi