Eminent Jurist Harish Salve, who won the affection of the Nation for his heroic efforts in saving Kulbushan Jadhav from death at the hands of Pakistan, is now facing death threats from his own countrymen

Karni Sena threatens Harish Salve for stay order in Padmaavat case

“Karni Sena called my office to threaten. They dared my office to complain,” Harish Salve said.

If the eminent jurist was worried about the threats, he did not show it. Instead, he put on a brave face and carried on as if it was business as usual.

The provocation for the alleged threat by the Karni Sena is the fact that Harish Salve represented Sanjay Bhansali and the producers of ‘Padmaavat’ in the Supreme Court to challenge a ban on the movie by certain States.

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The Bombay High Court has come down heavily on the tendency of lawyers of citing judgements without bothering to check whether those are still good law. The Court has warned that this unhealthy tendency shakes the confidence that the Court has in the lawyers

The judgement dated 9th December 2016 of Hon’ble Justice Gautam S. Patel in Heena Nikhil Dharia vs. Kokilaben Kirtikumar Nayak makes for sad reading. The learned judge has cited several instances where the learned counsel appearing for one of the parties cited judgements as being binding authority even though the said judgements had been overruled.

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Eminent Jurist and former Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, came in for rich praise from Hon’ble Chief Justice of India T. S. Thakur.

“Look at Mr Chidambaram. Has he stood up and tried to argue by raising his voice? No. Do you think he knows less than those lawyers who are always shouting?” the learned Chief Justice exclaimed in exasperation while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the demonetisation of currency.

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Eminent lawyers are now charging fees of upto Rs. 1 lakh per hour according to a report in Bloomberg

A few months ago, we saw a report on the fees charged by eminent lawyers like Fali Nariman, Ram Jethmalani, Harish Salve, Soli Sorabjee, Mukul Rohatgi etc for the stellar work done by them in delivering justice to their clients.

Interestingly, the fees that these stalwarts charge (a couple of lakhs per hearing) is a pittance compared to the fees that their counterparts in London are able to command.

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