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Meanwhile, enjoy this video of her teaching a patriarchal male lawyer a lesson he will never forget. This male referred to a lady Chief Minister as “Mamata Banerjee” instead of “Hon’ble CM”, which he is supposed to do as a law officer.
https://www.freepressjournal.in/amp/india/give-her-dignity-of-calling-her-cm-advocate-menaka-guruswamy-shouts-at-addl-sgi-sv-raju-during-ed-case-in-calcutta-hc-congress-lauds-lawyer-video
Quite a bit to connect. But once you do that, it's really the old, well trodden path of access and favours. Sure there is talent, merit etc. But let's not overstate. Not for her. Not for anyone like her or PLUS
The Trinamool Congress filed a counter-petition, alleging that the central agency has seized documents on the party's strategy and ideology -- a claim the ED has denied.
"The ED is bullying. They have stormed. They have searched," TMC Counsel Menaka Guruswamy told the single-judge bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh today, to which ED counsel SV Raju said, "No need for drama".
"We are not on caveat. We are not party in the SC case... In this matter, I want to make three points. One -- we are not party in the Supreme Court. Two -- data belonging to a political party was searched. We want our political data saved. Political data forms political ideology. Political jurisprudence is under question today. Three -- We respectfully request our political data be returned," Guruswamy said.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/trinamool-probe-agency-petitions-over-i-pac-dismissed-over-to-top-court-10748834
Rare example of a senior counsel invoking jurisprudential theories in court. The term “political jurisprudence” is used by modern legal theorists and means as as follows:
Political jurisprudence is a field of legal theory that views law as inseparable from politics, analyzing how governmental authority is formed and maintained, and understanding legal decisions as part of a political process where judges act as political actors influenced by societal forces to institutionalize political preferences
. It examines the fundamental relationship between law and the political (the way authority is imagined and established) rather than just politics (day-to-day governance), focusing on concepts like the State, sovereignty, and freedom, often tracing its roots to thinkers like Hobbes, Rousseau, and Schmitt.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6A485F44A1B9DBB95B2A92FA8AAE39E3/S2071832223000445a.pdf/the-political-jurisprudence-of-paul-w-kahn.pdf
Cerebral arguments by a cerebral lawyer. ♥️ The bar benefits by having NLSIU-Oxford toppers and hopefully this is the future direction of advocacy in India. 👌