Law, lawyers and justice

By:

Iyer, Krishna V. R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi; B.R. Publishing Coroporation; 1989Description: 164 pISBN:

8170185661

Subject(s):

Law-India

DDC classification:

340.115 KRI

Summary: Law, without lawyer, loses its locomotion. Lawyer, without law, misses his function. That is why a lawyer is an officer of Justice - not only of court. His functional obligation his dharma- is higher than to serve the court or to propitiate the judges. He is where truth and justice are. From Socrates, thro' Jesus, to Gandhi great martyrs have told the world that the crime of punishment, tho' committed by the state, is crime all the same, and the human essence of justice is not lex talionis but reformative reverence for the divine presence in the delinquent so that the man in man may no longer surrender to the demon in everyone. This culture of humanism, compassion and habilitation, the faith in personhood and its great potential that seeks expression but suffers suppression in an unjust social system, consists in the trinity of principles of Karuna, Samata and Pragnha which the Buddha taught, for which Gandhi fought and which is the value-oriented jurisprudence where man matters.

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Law, without lawyer, loses its locomotion. Lawyer, without law, misses his function. That is why a lawyer is an officer of Justice - not only of court. His functional obligation his dharma- is higher than to serve the court or to propitiate the judges. He is where truth and justice are.
From Socrates, thro' Jesus, to Gandhi great martyrs have told the world that the crime of punishment, tho' committed by the state, is crime all the same, and the human essence of justice is not lex talionis but reformative reverence for the divine presence in the delinquent so that the man in man may no longer surrender to the demon in everyone.
This culture of humanism, compassion and habilitation, the faith in personhood and its great potential that seeks expression but suffers suppression in an unjust social system, consists in the trinity of principles of Karuna, Samata and Pragnha which the Buddha taught, for which Gandhi fought and which is the value-oriented jurisprudence where man matters.

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