May 13, 2012

For Young Lawyers: Remember Dates

You may be remembering your birth date. But how many other dates you remember about various milestones which you crossed in your life? Justice K.G.Shah had amazing memory for dates. He could easily remember and recall any dates about his life events.

When studying a case, he used to give extra attentions to dates involved in a case.

If you want to catch a tiger by tail, in case of a book, you can catch it by index of a book. And in case of a legal case, you can master the case easily if you can catch dates involved in case.

A present Supreme Court Judge, recently said, "Dates Do not Lie". He believes in studying a case by examining proximity or otherwise of dates of documents filed in a case. You can easily sense probable Truth by examining dates and reflecting over gaps between the dates.


Haresh Raichura
13th May,2012