The Goan Bar is indeed perplexed at the pointer in the article Do Judges in Goa deliver real Justice? at the judge or two who are now supposedly transferred for the judicial mess in the higher echelons of the judiciary. The glee or jubilations in the canteens and corridors of the court by a handful of lawyers on transfer of the judges speaks volumes of the cowardly approach of those who are partners in the dispensation of justice. Does it behove the learned gentlemen to murmur and grumble or express glee at the transfer when a duty is cast on each of them to see that justice is not only done but seen to be done?
Why do these lawyers not move the court and urge it to either transfer the cause and distance itself from it wherein the court has had on an occasion or two to be linked to the matter before it at an earlier stage? Indeed it is shocking that those who assist and are officers in the judicial process want to have the best both ways by pretending to respect the court and then complain, grouse and belch outside the courtroom. A band of funks who have no courage to express their displeasure with the judge are often found grumbling about the messy state of affairs in the court.
The answer to all these problems is to have an upright, honest, conscientious Bar that practices what it preaches. This can be achieved when the intent of Article 214 of the Constitution of India is implemented fully and our own independent High Court is established where all lawyers will have an access to practice before it as was happening before the Judicial Commissioner’s Court. The lawyers from all over Goa would also have easy access to transfer and mention matters before the Chief Justice of our own High Court. The courts will then be cleansed without denigrating them in the corridors and the cloakrooms.
