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The promise of judicial service

Legal professionals who enter the judicial services hold positions of great responsibility. Ajith N, who has appeared a second time for the Kerala Higher Judicial Services examination and is currently awaiting results, calls it an “intellectually titillating” profession. “You have the opportunity to learn and read something new every day. It rewards the academically inclined and with every promotion you look forward to more responsibilities.” Keen to increase his knowledge on the subject, he even went on to write books for candidates aspiring to enter the judicial services.


Article 236 (b) of the Indian Constitution defines  “judicial service” as a service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of district judge and other civil judicial posts inferior to the post of district judge.



Stay (Wasting time)

A bunch of people I know (some directly, some through the Obiterette and some being the inhabitants of a sort of Venn-diagram-overlapping-space) are either quitting their jobs or contemplating quitting. This may just be a statistical anomaly, but it still inspires some contemplation. So I decided to postpone the football column (the Obiterette was enthused. Yes yes, she said, create a ‘we’re quitting our jobs’ club. Or a ‘we want to find ourselves’ club. I’m deliberately ignoring the possibility that a couple of stiff scotches could have had any part to play in her enthusiasm) and write about marginally more topical topics.


I have three jealous mistresses - the press, Parliament and the law

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Speaking to Rainmaker about multi-tasking several high courts on the same day, senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that it was just another facet of his multi-tasking. "That particular apocryphal story has been exaggerated and distorted. It is very easily done and I am sure a lot of other people are doing it, but in my case it is spread more than it should be. My own home state of Rajasthan has morning courts in the summer, which start at 7 o' clock and get over at 1 o' clock. I was probably one of the earliest, but I am sure it has happened to a lot of other people - where a brief is offered to you for a miscellaneous matter in Jaipur, and even by the normal flight you can do it my 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock. If you've a charter plane, you're back in Delhi by ten-thirty comfortably. So then till one you can do any number of cases in the Supreme Court and the High Court.


Anindita Phukan

Anindita Phukan is a partner with Poovayya & Co. in Bangalore, handling corporate advisory and M&A in technology, media, telecom and outsourcing.

What are you looking forward to from 2010?

I am, as I guess everybody else is, looking forward to more profitable, fulfilling and peaceful years ahead.

Who was the first lawyer you ever worked under? What is the most important lesson that you learnt from him/her?

I started assisting my late father whilst still at law school. There are a few very important things that I learnt from my father which I apply to this day. I learnt the importance of attention to detail and keeping up with the developments in my profession. My father also taught me humility and the continuous need for self improvement, maintaining all the while that “it had taken him all these years to know that he did not know”.

Of course, my training as a corporate lawyer began with Mr. Jyoti Sagar who has probably contributed the most towards my growth as a corporate lawyer.


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