In the recent past two High Court judges have succumbed to Covid19. Several others were infected in the past. Judges and lawyers braving odds are like frontline warriors fighting to keep the Justice Delivery System alive often throwing caution to the winds. RAJU Z. MORAY takes a poetic view of these aspects.
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Just when we were being told
There’s nothing to fear or dread
In Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
Two High Court judges are dead
Unlocked lawyers crowd courts
No one can take them to task
Social Distancing is impossible
Arguments suffocate in a mask
Still many prefer the physical
Though virtual is convenient
The administration also tends to
Ignore the proper for the expedient
Bar Associations are suggesting
To try a listing system that’s hybrid
Encouraging lawyers participation
Yet not assisting spread of COVID
Justice delivery is paralysed
Pending cases continue to mount
In quick admissions and disposals
The virus has a far better count!
Government wants everything open
Dishes statistics, claims they don’t lie
It expects us to be obedient citizens
Not ask how and why so many die.
(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’.)
