1/ Thread (8) Young Lawyers who want to learn Criminal Law without help of any guide or mentor, may consider following points. 2/
1) Criminal law is a "Tacit Knowledge" (Knowledge that is learned by doing a task. Just like learning to ride on a bicycle. Here the whole body learns the skill when a job is actually being done.)

1/ (7) Young lawyers often feel stuck in their career. They may try following exercise.

This exercise is called "20 Sentence Completion Exercise" 2/ Write, "I feel stuck in my life because ........ ".

Then complete this sentence 20 times. This will take out all worries from your mind and will put them on paper where you can see them.

1/ (6)Young lawyers who do not like Criminal Law, may consider following points.

Crimes happen in morning.
Crimes happen in Afternoon.
Crimes happen in evening..
Crimes happen during nights. 2/ Rich people commit crimes.
Poor people commit crimes.
Middle class people commit crimes.

Crimes happen in posh colonies.
Crimes happen in slums.

1/ (5)Young lawyers may find it helpful to keep a "Chronicle of Mistakes".

In young age, we are bound to make mistakes. After a hearing is over, we have lots of second thoughts on what we could have done differently to win the case. 2/ But by then, the bus has left. We feel sorry and guilty.

Following point can be remembered to reduce stress of discovering our own mistakes.

1/ (4)Young lawyers need to be clear about their fee policies.

I hear lots of juniors who complain that clients exploit them and pay them very low fees.

Following point can be remembered to reduce stress of being paid low fees. 2/ "Fee is not always in cash. It can also be rewards of other kinds".

Since 1982, my fee policy is :

"Whatever you can pay. You should be comfortable. And I should also be comfortable. You should not expect me to spend from my own pocket".

Thread (1 to 13) "Sir, how to write judgements? I am preparing for #judiciary exams" asked a final year law student.

1/ I have no idea whatsoever about how judiciary exams are being conducted and what types of judgements they want candidates to write in exam. 2/ But this post can give you my perspectives on judgement writing.

First, in your mind, replace word "Judgement" with word "Opinion".

Thread (1 to 8 ) 1/ A liftman in my chamber building recently committed suicide. We are taught in colleges that Law is considered science of social engineering.

Then can we explain position of law relating to suicide of this liftman ? 2/ He was in his 40th year. He used to salute me everytime I enter and leave lawyers chambers. Like all other lawyers, I also used to give him tips. But then nothing more.

Thread : To persuade young #lawyers to sacrifice something in order to get long term benifits.

1/ Are you willing to sacrifice something for a better future? Then the following example may inspire you.

#lawyers #lawstudents #students #lawtwitter 2/ It was around 1991. I was preparing for AOR Supreme Court Exam. It was my first attempt at this exam. I had rented one room at about 200 feet distance away from my house.

In this room, I used to go to read for about 8 hours a day.

I used to study alone.

Thread : What care a #law #student should take while sitting in library, and digesting law #books? How should he navigate through thousands of books in law library of #college? What books to read and what to ignore?

1) The topic of this thread itself is complicated. 2/ But once I was also a law student. (In 1977). All the law books in law college library amazed me! It looked as if each book was radiating powers of the good over the evil. I had dreams of power and wealth and these books looked like my passport to a golden future.

Thread : What to keep in mind while arguing criminal cases involving finnancial frauds.

1) In cases involving murders etc, human emotions are involved. Various kinds of human circumstances evoke emotions that lead to the crime of murder. All these human factors are relevant. 2/ So even if it may look that the crime is such that death penalty should be given, when a lawyer minutely works on a series of emotional issues that lead upto the very minute of the crime, the judge may decide not to give death penalty.

Thread : Why a litigant gets embroiled in multiple cases even when he is not a fault....

1/ #Lawyers will naturally earn more when a client has to fight more than one cases. This issue need to be examined by those concerned with laws in #India 2/ One Example : Suit for possession without seeking decoration of title is not maintainable but a fresh suit can be filed.

1) So first a litigant files suit only for possession and obtains stay against sale of property.

2) When other side points out defect in title,

Thread : The orginal debate on religions and Gods.

1) The orignal debates about must have started 10000 or 20000 years ago when humans lived in small tribes. 2/ At that time, the man noticed that even when odds were heavy against his survival, he received help from some unknown sources at last minute and he miraculously survived. These invisible sources of help were God to him.

Thread : How to read a Legal Document. A small tip..

1) Clients come with heap of letters and documents and ask us to file their case.

There is a method about it which many #Lawyers use. 2) First, listen at length. Do not interrupt client if possible. Do not cross examine him. Do not disturb him. Avoid jumping to any conclusion about his case.

Alas! Alas ! Alas ! If someone had told me this when I was young. I wish someone had told me then that “The Road of Goals is filled with pebbles of gold.”

All I needed to do was to lift pebbles and to finish goals mentioned under the pebbles.

#motivation 2/ To understand a cryptic section, we #lawyers and #judges, read a sentence twice, thrice or till we understand meaning of each word.

If you will read earlier tweet in this thread again, you may find that the pebbles on the road to goals are very heavy.
#motivation

Thread : Some Reasons on why Anticipatory Bail, even without copy of FIR, ought to be granted to those who fear arrest for some social media post, posted or shared by them.

1) It is possible for courts to grant anticipatory bail to any law abiding person under Sec.438 of CrPC 2) The meaning of Anticipatory bail is simply this, the police should not arrest, but should get some personal bond from accused that he/she will co-operate with investigation.

Thread on How NOT to take legal advice.

1/ If you believe that nowadays it is very easy to get legal advice. Then, this thread is for you. This thread may help you to think totally differently on lot of things relating to court cases.

#law #lawyers 2/ There are thousands of free resources on internet when a person can ask legal advice. There blogs, articles, paid articles which comes up on search and there are judgements and judgements. Search and you may start receiving calls guiding you free on your legal issue

1/ भारत में कानूनी पेशे की वास्तविकता के साथ बैठक।

जून 1982 का दिन था। कोर्ट में मेरा पहला दिन था। मैं कोर्ट की कार्यवाही देखने के लिए चीफ ज्यूडिशियल मजिस्ट्रेट कोर्ट गया था।

स्वतंत्रता दिवस के बाद से गुजरात में निषेध कानून है।

नशे में पाए गए गरीबों को गिरफ्तार 2/ कर लिया गया है और उन पर अदालत में मुकदमा चलाया जा रहा है।

पूरे कोर्ट रूम में भीड़ थी और हवा में शराब की तेज गंध आ रही थी।

बचाव पक्ष के वकील भी पूरी तरह से नशे में थे।

जब भी वह जज को सबमिशन दे रहा था, उसके मुंह से शराब की गंध निकल रही थी।

न्यायाधीश पूरी तरह से मामले

1/ Meeting with REALITY of Legal Profession in India.

It was June 1982. My first day in court. I went in Chief Judicial Magistrate Court to see court proceedings.

There is Prohibition Law in Gujarat since Independance Day.

The poor, who were found drunk are arrested and 2/ are being tried in court of law.

The whole courtroom was crowded and there was a strong smell of alcohol in the air.

The defense counsel was also fully drunk.

Alcohol Smell was coming out from his mouth every time he was making submissions to Judge.

INCREDIBLE IN INDIA Law Makers do not need to have a degree of law. Only for lawyers and judges, it is compulsory to pass a law college. No doubt, we have messed up everything. #Lawyers #lawtwitter 2/ New Laws are required NOT REQUIRED to be cleared by any Judicial Committee to examine how many more judges and staff will be needed to deal with cases under new proposed law.

Thread for For Law Students and Young Lawyers: I am in legal profession since 40 years. I have learned three things.

1) Columbus set out on a long voyage to discover India. But in realty he landed on shores of America. Life is like that. We may have ambition to 2/ reach at one destination. But we may end up reaching at a different destination.

2) Life is like a long web series which has many seasons and many episodes. In each episode reach at one destination. But we may end up reaching at a different destination.

Thread for Doctors (a thread to be updated time to time)

I will write here about,
What doctors can do to protect themselves, against complaints under SC/ST Act, complaints in police for medical negligence, complaints for medical negligence in

#Doctors #MedTwitter #India 2/ police station, complaints filed in criminal courts, summons by court to private doctors to appear as a witness with medical record of a patient, cases in civil court for damages, steps a doctor can take if he perceives threats from a patient, etc.

#doctors #MedTwitter