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Former Attorney General and Senior Advocate K. Parasaran swept a postulation of judges, from the Supreme Court arsenic good arsenic the Madras High Court, disconnected their feet connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) with his scintillating code laced with wit and humour adjacent astatine the property of 98.
Justices Vikram Nath, M.M. Sundresh, P.S. Narasimha, K.V. Viswanathan and R. Mahadevan of the Supreme Court, Madras High Court Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and a big of different sitting arsenic good arsenic erstwhile judges gave a lasting ovation to the doyen of the Bar.
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The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry (BCTNP) had organised the lawsuit to observe the completion of 75 years (platinum jubilee) by Mr. Parasaran arsenic a lawyer and the completion of 50 years (golden jubilee) arsenic a designated Senior Advocate.
Flanked by 5 sitting judges from the Supreme Court and 3 (including Justices R. Suresh Kumar and M.S. Ramesh) from the Madras High Court, Mr. Parasaran began his speech, successful a lighter note, asking however could helium beryllium expected to code a Constitution Bench (comprising 5 judges) of the Supreme Court and a Full Bench (comprising 3 judges) of the High Court simultaneously.
“Supreme Court arsenic good arsenic High Court judges are adjacent members of a household progressive successful medication of justice, The highest tribunal of a State is the High Court and it is not subordinate to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is lone a Constitutional appellate court. That is all,” helium said amidst thunderous applause.
Further, stating the Bar and the Bench were the 2 wings of the vertebrate of justice, helium said: “The judges are the adjudicating partners and lawyers are the advocating partners. If anyone does not relation properly, the vertebrate volition not alert high. It volition autumn down.”
Moral & ethical values taught by his father
Attributing his occurrence successful the ineligible assemblage to the motivation and ethical values taught by his lawyer begetter R. Kesava Iyengar of Srirangam, Mr. Parasaran said, helium was taught that each idiosyncratic indispensable execute his/her work without immoderate expectations.
“My begetter taught maine to support the highest dignity successful the court... He said, nevertheless learned a lawyer you whitethorn be, you indispensable ever reason with the presumption that the justice sitting connected the dais knows much than what you know. He said, a lawyer indispensable ne'er beryllium assertive but lone submissive due to the fact that you are supplicating connected behalf of idiosyncratic else,” the jurist told the gathering.
He besides dispelled the statement implicit a predominant struggle betwixt instrumentality and justice. He said: “If you reply your conscience, you volition reply some instrumentality and Dharma... but we ne'er reply our conscience, we take things that are convenient to us. That is erstwhile the occupation arises.”
Recalling the days erstwhile helium utilized to gain arsenic debased arsenic ₹5 adjacent for filing a Civil Revision Petition, Mr. Parasaran disapproved of the contiguous signifier of elder advocates charging lakhs and crores of rupees to reason cases earlier the Supreme Court and the High Courts. “Legal assemblage is not astir money. We are worshippers of justice,” helium said and urged lawyers to complaint lone a tenable magnitude of fees.
Denied portion clip lecturer’s job
Stating that helium ne'er solicited immoderate presumption each done his nonrecreational vocation but for erstwhile once helium applied for the station of part-time instrumentality lecturer due to the fact that of his past fiscal situation, the doyen said: “I was not selected for the occupation astir apt due to the fact that I was a golden medallist successful B.A. (Sanskrit), a golden medallist successful Hindu instrumentality portion pursuing my instrumentality grade and a golden medallist successful the Bar assembly examinations. They said, therefore, you are disqualified.”
Even arsenic the assemblage were successful splits, Mr. Parasaran thanked his woman Saroja Parasaran for having taken distant the load of raising the household disconnected his shoulders and said: “My woman and I had an agreement. She said, you instrumentality attraction of the work of earning wealth and I shall instrumentality attraction of spending it. This was the part of labour betwixt us.”
Almost each sitting judges of the Madras High Court, a fewer retired judges of the Supreme Court and immoderate erstwhile Chief Justices of assorted High Courts participated successful the celebrations. Bar Council of India vice-chairman S. Prabakaran, BCTNP president P.S. Amalraj and others spoke.
