Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud urged senior members of the bar association to pay decent salaries to the juniors, especially in big cities, in order to enable them to live a life of dignity. He said senior lawyers should not treat their juniors as slaves just because they themselves had to learn the law the hard way when they were starting out in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While speaking at a function organized by the Bar Council of India to felicitate him for recently taking up the mantle as the Chief Justice of India, he said that the time has now changed and it is difficult to survive in big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore or Kolkata without decent salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He asked the seniors to stop treating their juniors the way they were treated during their early lives in the profession. This was the old ragtag principle at Delhi university, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stated that those who were ragged always ragged those below them because it was a way of passing on the blessing of being ragged. Sometimes it got very bad. But the point is that seniors today cannot say that is how they learned law the hard way, and therefore they will not pay their juniors, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those times were very different, families were smaller, and there were family resources. And so many young lawyers who could have made it to the top never made it for the simple reason that they had no resources, he further stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stated that a young lawyer moving into a large city from another neighbourhood has to find homes, pay rent, arrange transportation, and buy food. Our young lawyers don’t even have chambers where they are paid money. That needs to change, and it is our responsibility as senior professionals to bring about that change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also emphasized the significance of removing the legal profession from its current patriarchal and caste-based framework and opening it up to all segments of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CJI also brought up the system of junior recruitment that is common in the\u00a0legal industry. He said it is uncommon for juniors to connect with seniors through an informal network in our industry. Some may refer to it as an old boys’ club. Young lawyers who are interested in joining chambers are not recruited using a merit-based system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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