Bar is the judge of the Judges and no judge can escape the verdict of the Bar.
You opened its (the Supreme Court's) doors to the poor, the needy and the indignant.
Justice Iyer once said, "For me life is a verb, a process. Not a noun, a product."
Perhaps the most quoted Judge, Justice Iyer's repository of wisdom wrapped in inimitable English would leave every student of law spell bound.
Behold the phenomenon of Indian Corruption Incorporated.
Erudite brevity is better than shallow prolixity.
Culpable insouciance and turpitudinous procrastinations - a besetting sin of the Indian Judiciary
Draconian laws do not cease to be law in court but must alert a wakeful and quick-acting legislature.
A couple of quotes from his tax judgements.
There is no need to go down to the order of the Collector of Excise and examine his reasons because it is somewhat obscure and sheds no more light on the issue before us.
To return what has been taken wrongly is as much a duty and grace of government as to levy relentlessly and fully what is due. Default in either, not altogether unfamiliar, brings down the confidence of the community in the administration. That a party should have been put to two expensive and elongated litigations to recover a relatively small sum is regrettable.
Assuming that the tax officers have an alibi of two interpretations of the given notification, the question is whether plainer use of language is an art beyond the draftsman's skills? We think not.
To liquidate obscurity in legislative language, by abandoning obsolescent vocabulary and style of expression is an overdue measure.
Politics has been a profession and, indeed, under modern conditions in India, perhaps the most popular and uninhibited occupation-with its perils, of course. Law cannot take leave of realities and therefore s. 5(a) must bear the construction that politics is a profession or occupation .
Justice Krishna Iyer is gone. Referring to his wife's death in 1974, he said,
The positive dimension of death is the command to fulfil Life's Office faithfully .
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