Interesting report in the Hindu Newspaper today about the 150th birthday of the Bombay Bar Association this week…
Here’s the report
There are instances where lawyers have acted in a manner that is unbecoming of them, and the bar associations should act responsibly, said Justice Sharad Bobade, a sitting judge of the Supreme Court, in Mumbai on Saturday.
The Bombay Bar Association completed 150 years of its existence and launched a coffee table book on the history of the oldest bar, which saw the coming together of Manjula Chellur, Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, sitting judges of the Supreme Court, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Sharad Bobade, senior counsel Milind Sathe and Birendra Saraf, the president, and the secretary of the bar.
Mr. Sathe named the number of Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court judges, and Chief Justices of various High Courts, which have come from the Bombay bar.
Justice Chellur spoke about the way ahead for the Indian judiciary and that the institutions should prepare themselves for challenges and the mounting arrears.
Justice Chandrachud reminisced his founding days at the bar as a lawyer and then as a Bombay High Court judge. He said the judiciary must overcome cynicism and look ahead.
Justice Bobade said the bar associations play a very important role and need to be responsible in their functioning.
Mr. Saraf said this day will go down as momentous in the history of the Bombay Bar Association.
The Bombay Bar Association, one of the oldest in the country, is an association of lawyers practicing in the Bombay High Court. The Bombay Bar Association, popularly referred to as the BBA has produced some of India’s greatest judges, lawyers and jurists. Indeed, a list of its past and present members would read like a Who’s Who of the law in India. The Bar Association has given the country several Chief Justices of India, Attorney-Generals, Solicitor-Generals and Advocate-Generals of the State. It is not coincidence, too, that its members, along with other lawyers of the Bombay High Court, played a pivotal role in shaping the destiny of the sub-continent.
