The issue of rampant misuse of stickers announcing ‘ADVOCATE’ came up before the Madras High Court recently. The High Court wanted to know what was their sanctity? RAJU Z MORAY probes this sticky issue in his poem
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People were parking anywhere
Even blocking someone’s gate
With windscreens displaying
Stickers proclaiming ‘Advocate’!
Traffic cops had stopped towing
Any such two-wheeler or car
If the offenders purported to be
Members of noble profession,Bar
Soon all and sundry caught on
And manufactured what it takes
The bazaars started overflowing
With stickers which were fakes
The cops were shocked to see
Advocates stickers everywhere
Taxis and rickshaws had them
Without consequences or care
Bar members were much feared
As they were united and strong
The Law therefore stayed clear
Though its famed arms were long
But one day the matter of stickers
Landed up in the High Court
And the learned judges spared none
As they had perused every report
“What is the sanctity of stickers?”
The judges were very quick to ask
Black coats turned to each other
And found stickers on every mask!
(Raju Z Moray is an advocate who practices law in the Bombay High Court when not puncturing bloated egos. He is the creator of ‘Gobble D. Gook’, his alter-ego, who figured in the ‘Court Jester’ columns of ‘The Lawyers’.)
