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After taking a
vacation for a couple of weeks, it is time to get back to the routine. There is no such thing as easing into
the work life. Reality hits when clients call up about the status of their
files. Despite judgments and orders being obtained in their favour, they are still unable to get back their money or their land. It has become necessary to
take further actions. I certainly wish I were somewhere in Nice struggling to converse with my spatters of French to the shop assistant, café
waiter or restaurant hostess or
walking down the streets in Leamington Spa or catching a tube to get
from one place to another around London.
Those who resort
to filing a suit or an action in court
believe that they have been wronged and they are hoping that justice
will straighten things out. As lawyers, when we agree to take on a brief, we
act upon instructions from our clients. Everyone interprets the facts from
their own point of view. After a while you realize that there is no absolute right
or wrong, it is just a matter of who may deserve it more and how some justice must
be seen to be done whether by way of some monetary compensation or other form of remedies. As lawyers, it is our
job in finding the law that supports our clients’ cases and put forth arguments
within the legal limits since we are paid to argue to uphold our clients’
stance and position.
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We implore the
law to help sort out our clients’ woes in their lives when trouble strikes. We
also prepare the necessary documentation to safeguard our clients’ interests when
they enter into transactions and partnerships with others. The law
definitely plays a large role in
the commercial and financial world .In the banking world, when the banks or
lenders recover what is legally
due to them, the amount may be inflated and compounded with interests so much
so that the borrowers now have to
settle some amount much larger than what they had initially borrowed. Just like
in all business transactions,
someone must make a gain or earn their keep while another person must lose or pay for that someone’s gain or reward. Perhaps if the bank had been
prudent in lending, there would be less bad debts but this is economy and the lending is necessary so that there
is more buying and selling and it gives the economy a buzz.
If one person
feels that he has been hurt or injured whether it is his name or reputation, he
will sue for libel. If one feels
that his legal interests had been invaded or his rights had been infringed, he will file a complaint.
Nobody wants to be treated unfairly but trying to get even with somebody is indeed not a good premise to begin with. Life is fair in a strange way. If
only everyone could look into the mirror and ask “Really? You honestly believe
that you did not ask for this to happen to you?”
Whatever it is,
nobody wants to be at the losing end or taken advantage of . The question is
as soon as we feel it is our legal right, we will defend what we believe is our
legal right. For some twist of fate or a moment of indiscretion, whether it is
in the name of claiming his or her legal entitlement or simply being strictly
uncompromising, a law suit is filed by or
against him or her rightly or wrongly. Often when a quarrel ends up in
the court room, there is no turning point; it may feel like falling into quicksand and you can no longer escape
from the trappings following the unfinished business that hang over your head
and drain your energy and spirit. As lawyers, we are paid to argue but success
cannot be guaranteed. We certainly want to win the cases for our clients
otherwise we should not have taken up the cases . Often it might be wise for a
litigant to make a decision to walk away, count his or her bad luck and make
peace with the world, if not the person may find himself or herself entangled
in the web of legal battles and wonder “ Why me ?” If one sticks to the basic rule:
What is meant to be yours will be yours and the other Karmic rule : what comes round goes around and
what goes round must come round, will there still be a need for legal services?
modern society needs to be regulated to safeguard against malice and harm. We require laws and order to keep the environment safe for everyone and minimize abuse or unfair treatments of certain groups of people and prevent flagrant flouting of the law. We need the laws to regularize things and make things lawful and proper for those who need the protection of the law. For example, the new born baby who had been borne out of wedlock and had to be put up for adoption, the housewife whose ignorance had ended her in some fraudulent scams, the worker who had been unfairly treated and many others who have not understood the gravity of their actions or omissions So we lawyers soldier on ….
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