Emotions In Law Practice A Bad Idea
Channel: MentorTalk
Date: 27/08/2022

Emotions Versus Law 

In early 1993 when I was just a year and a half old in the legal profession, I appeared in a very important case in the Delhi High Court. I was representing a large, nationalized bank against a VVIP defaulter. And something really strange happened in the court room.
The defaulter showed no respect for the court proceedings and chose not to appear despite nearly half a dozen directions and opportunities to appear before the court in person. He was a VIP so perhaps he thought was above law. On that day I remember citing several Supreme Court and High Court judgements to ensure the personal presence of the defaulter by way of warrants. And I actually succeeded when the Hon’ble Judge on being convinced, passed a detailed order in a verbal dictation in an open court – issuing bailable warrants against the said VIP to secure his personal presence. The client celebrated and so did I, as a young lawyer.
The tragic part is that when I received the order in hand, the next day it said nothing about what was pronounced in the court. A two-liner order simply stating `the defaulter is given the last and final opportunity to appear on the next date’ and the next date was 3 months henceforth. 
I took this matter up with the Judge in his personal chamber despite being very young. I was charged up. He gave me an audience and told me that he had reapplied his mind and he had the prerogative to change the order before it was actually signed by him. And the rest is history.  
Not getting too much into details, the lesson I got and which I want all of you – law students and young lawyers who wish to embrace litigation, to remember is that while handling legal briefs and cases, do not get carried away and also not get too personal and sensitive or emotional about the outcome of the professional matters. Just do your best for the client. Some days are good and some not too good. But there is no bad day ever.   
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