Now collected for the first time, they present a funny and rich tapestry of tales involving lives of law students navigating their way through law college, budding lawyers chambering with seniors, young lawyers appearing before and sometimes surviving “Milords”, quirky judges with apt nicknames, and the all-knowing go-to court clerks and ever-helpful court staff. Peppered in between this cast of characters are the litigants who are lost in this maze, pavement booksellers who encounter these characters daily, and of course, our ever-watchful author, whose keen sense of observation and wry sense of humour turns the grayscale world of law into a wonderous hue of human tragicomedy.
Much of these stories exist in a time not yet populated by cell phones, tablets, digital research tools and, therefore, belong to an era we may never hope to see again, of a gentler, simpler world – and it is in this milieu that the author deftly brings to sharp focus the human quirks of the legal world. The illustrations by Farzana Cooper are spot on and capture the sharp, tongue-in-cheek humour.
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