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Ikigai (生き甲斐) is a Japanese concept that translates to "a reason for being" or "a reason to live". Last month, I randomly started to post case law summaries on LinkedIn. These case laws were handpicked by our Bar Council  Publication Committee. Yes, these are the people who like to send us emails, which are mostly never opened or are ignored by many of us. These mails kept bothering me, hence since the days of chambering, I wanted to read and post them on my blog, being scared of the commitment it requires, I hesitated.  Then, at the end of April, I randomly wrote a post about a criminal case, which was on my mind for a few months after giving it a read. Then, after that post, I consistently posted every day a case handpicked by our fellow committee.  From contracts, civil procedure, tort, criminal, election law, revenue law, and intellectual property... Whooshh, what variety of cases I was reading, laws in fields I never expected to be read, or thought was too diff...

  Called, then what? ‘Called’ is called to bar. 'Called, then what' is 24 th Chapter of An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (hereinafter referred as ‘Gandhiji’). I was reading this chapter and learned that Gandhiji has read all his textbooks before the Bar examinations! List of textbooks he read at his time are listed as below;- Thomas Collett Saunders, The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation and Notes (1859). Herbert Broom, Commentaries on Common Law, Designed as Introductory to its Study, eighth edition (1888). Edmund H.T. Snell, The Principles of Equity, Intended for the Use of Students and the Profession, eighth edition (1887). Frederick T. White and Owen D. Tudor, Leading Cases in Equity, sixth edition (1886). Joshua Williams, Principles of the Law of Real Property, Intended as a first book for the use of students in conveyancing, sixteenth edition (1887). William Douglas Edwards, A Compe...

  "This movie analysis contains spoilers" This blog is not owned by a professional movie reviewer. 10 Rillington Place directed by Richard Fleischer, adapted from the story of Ludwic Kennedy (1961).  Based on a true story. As usual, most courtroom dramas are based on criminal cases. 10 Rillington Place is also one of it. This real-life criminal case made film is located in London at the time of post-second world war (1944-1949) Three-quarters of the film has the screenplay of how Mr Christie (Murderer) kills/murders pitiful women. Most of his victims are young, going through a midlife crisis. He has a specific toxic gas and other apparatus, apparently used during the war. The method of him attracting young women is as usual a kind of trap. Where he pours “ British ” tea and talks buttery smooth. One victim portrayed in the film was Mrs Evan. Her husband is illiterate and so much proud and pretends he was rich. In reality, he earns only seven pounds a week. They move into Mr C...

"This movie analysis contains spoilers"\ This blog is not owned by a professional movie reviewer. Directed by Barbet Schroeder , story adapted from the 1985 book Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case, written by law professor Alan Dershowitz.   The literal meaning for Reversal of Fortune is 1. the act or an instance of reversing. 2 a change for the worse; reverse. a reversal of fortune. 3 the state of being reversed. In this case, the fortune of Mrs Sunny (the extremely wealthy wife) (On the left of this above poster).  This story (based on a true story) is about the mystery of Mrs Sunny falling into a coma, still unsolved if I can give some spoilers. This is one technique I found, to keep the story more interesting. Until the end, the director nor the writer discloses how exactly Mrs Sunny fell into a coma. On the other side, Mr Claus is trying to escape from the verdict of him guilty of the attempted murder of injecting her wife with insulin injection.  Th...

"This movie analysis contains spoilers"\ This blog is not owned by a professional movie reviewer. The Paper Chase,  an English film   directed by  James Bridges  -in  1973. Story by  John Jay Osborn Jr. My initial thought on this movie after reading the synopsis was that this is not a courtroom drama, but just a plain drama that revolves around a hardworking law student, who struggles between his studies and relationship. I had second thoughts on watching this film, as I was expecting more of hardcore like the previous film, 12 Angry men, or killing a mocking bird. Then I thought why not.  I was correct of course, this story was plain drama. We still can get the juice of it.  The lead character, James.T.Hart ( Timothy Bottoms ) a first-year student join a study group to share outlines of their course. A group consisting of six, each chooses a subject, works on the outline (notes) and shares with the rest of the group for the final exam. However, t...

கடந்த இரண்டாம் திகதி மார்ச் 2022, நானும் என் சக தோழி பவித்திராவும் வழக்கறிஞர் திரு மதியழகன் அவர்களை ஈப்போ, பேராக்கில் அவரது அலுவலகத்தில் கலந்து பேசிய உரையாடலை கீழே எழுதியுள்ளேன். இது ஒரு நேர்காணல் அல்ல. இங்கே, எங்களுக்காக நேரம் ஒதுக்கிய வழக்கறிஞருக்கும் இந்தச் சந்திப்பைத் தடங்கலின்றி ஏற்படுத்தி தந்த திருமதி அனித்தாவுக்கும் தகுந்த நன்றிகளைத் தெரிவிக்கும் வாய்ப்பிது. வழக்கறிஞர் மதியழகன் பற்றிய சிறு முன்னுரை; இவர் 2008 தொடங்கி 2015 வரை நயணம் பத்திரிக்கைக்கு எழுதி வருகிறார். இவரின் தனிச்சிறப்பு இவரின் எழுத்து நவீன இலக்கியத்தில் சேருவதாகும். அதாவது மக்களை நோக்கி எழுதக் கூடிய எழுத்து. இவரது சாமானிய வார்த்தைகளும், அவ்வப்போது வரும் கேளிக்கைகளும் மக்களை அதிக ஈர்க்கச்செய்யும். தனது சொந்த அனுபவங்களையும் வழக்குகளையும் எழுதி வரும் இவர், சமூதாயத்தின் அடிப்படை பிரச்சனைகளான நிலம், கல்வி, குடும்ப சிக்கல்கள், வணிகம் போன்ற துறைகளில் நாம் அறிந்திருக்கவே முடியாத பொக்கிஷங்களை எழுதி தள்ளுகிறார். படிப்பது நமது விருப்பம். அவர் அலுவலகத்தில் எங்களை வரவேற்று, நாங்கள் மூன்றாம் வருட சட்டக் கல்லூரி மாணவிகள், ஞாயிறு ...