Aastha Tiwari

Lawyer.

[Bharat Chugh @advbharatchugh]

My take on the recent SC judgment on mandatory three years practice:

1. I can speak from experience that young, idealistic and extremely talented youth aspire to be adjudicators. Telling them to park the aspiration for 3 years and enter practice instead may hurt this aspiration more than it helps their ability to adjudicate.

2. It may not be accurate to equate young judges with fresh law graduates. We are missing that they undergo extensive training before actually assuming charge which is long and extensive. Also, the process of exam takes at least one and a half years to three years. Also, they get to sit with sitting judges right from magistrates to the high court.

3. I can say from experience, this year-long process is not only thorough but life-changing. We may always have conversations about ways in which the training may be improved, and the judicial academies are already working in that direction.

4. n any case, I don't think a 3-year experience at the bar makes a huge difference to a young judge’s ability to adjudicate. Law is a marathon not a sprint. It takes a decade to find one's feet in the Bar. 3 years may not have any added tangible effect on the overall suitability of the candidate.

5. Often, especially in litigation, youngsters struggle for a few years and not everyone is able to find a good senior/chambers to work-in. Some more than others. Further, the profession itself is not a panacea, let alone a solution towards improving the services or the quality of judges.

6. We must remember that the profession is saturated, unstructured and places a huge primer of privilege of various kinds – social, gender, geographical, and financial. In the absence of a level playing field, not all who want to be judges may have an equal or unbridled path into the Bar.

7.. The opportunities at the Bar are not enough, equal or perfect substitutes for a career in the judiciary.

8. I believe catching them young, training them in the life of a judge has certain benefits, especially with our mounting arrears and the new technocratic mindset needed. We must remember that young judges’ jurisdiction is constrained is important to be noted.

9. The ‘too young to judge’ argument also discounts the fact that a 24 year old surgeon can perform a life-threatening surgery. A 24 year old IAS and IPS officer routinely takes decisions that alter people’s lives, often irrevocably and often without the guard-rails of judicial appeals and limited jurisdiction. The age argument could be made there too.

10. Also, spending 4-5 years at that Bar (which is inevitable, given the fact that exam process itself takes time and 3 years is the minimum requirement), may make the entry level judicial services unattractive as a career option for young graduates. Someone with a 7 year experience at the Bar is unlikely to want to start off at the entry-level. They would then probably go towards the district judgeship.

The idea should be to catch them young, train them as adjudicators and progressively build skills suited for greater responsibility. 3 years at the Bar would not build adjudication skills acquired over the course of early judgeship years. Also, the conversation that we should be having instead is :

A. Are we attracting the best talent there is or are we losing that out to law firms, corporate firms and top law chambers;

B. Are we retaining the best talent, and training them the best way we can.

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

Hello @MahaCyber1

A person from these numbers has been harassing me, calling in the name of @HDFC_Bank and abusing me for not sharing OTP, even threatened me to hurt physically. @MumbaiPolice

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

Watched Ctrl on Netflix-interesting but skips key legalities. Ananya, despite being the prime suspect in her bf’s murder “settles” the case with no investigation or trial. A big AI company decides her fate and even “erases” all her digital footprints. Unreal.

[Rani @maharani3012]

Dhire dhire Sachiv ji bante ja rahi hu!

[Sanya Talwar @LegalTalwar]

All men and some women. If Violence is perpetrated directly by men, it is perpetrated indirectly by women, especially in the Indian context, where women at home believe that their sons, brothers or blood relatives can never do wrong. Many Women perpetrate violence and cry foul when life gives them lemons. So lets not gender violence.

[Dr Nandita Iyer @saffrontrail]

Hello Tarun Tahiliani!
I have seen better Sarees sold in Mumbai streets for Rs.200 than these ceremonial uniforms you’ve ‘designed’.
Cheap polyester like fabric, Ikat PRINT (!!!), tricolors thrown together with no imagination
Did you outsource it to an intern or come up with it in the last 3 minutes before the deadline?
Such a disgrace to the rich weaving culture and history of India.

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

@law_ninja Get well soon. A lot of people are having similar problem! Praying for your speedy recovery.

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

Watched #BadNewz last night. Karan Johar’s obsession with his old movies is annoying. The only good parts of the movie are Vicky Kaushal’s dance and the interval.😭

[Bharat Chugh @advbharatchugh]

"The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away."

- Leland Val Van De Wall

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

@erbmjha Disgusting🤮

[Arshpreet Singh | UPSC Talks | Mentor | @arsh1902]

In Landmark Judgement by SC in case MK Ranjitsinh vs Union of India said, Right to be free from the adverse impacts of the climate change

Point for Mains:
Requiring centrally sponsored schemes to be aligned with climate goals to climate tag expenditure towards climate resilience

[Ratna Singh @whattalawyer]

Rajasthan civil judge 2024 preliminary question paper full of errors.

Exam strategists are planning to set up the paper 2 hours before the NEET exam, while there are states that can't even set a correct paper after having a year (or more) to do so. 🥲

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

Thank you Rohit. 😭❤️

[Raja Babu @GaurangBhardwa1]

#INDvsSAFinal

[Aryan 🦥 @iAryan_Sharma]

Me during T20 world cup final 🥲 #INDvsSAFinal

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Try telling his family when this airport terminal was built. 🙏🏽💔

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

Watched #chanduchampion twice! One of the few movies I can enjoy in theatres more than once. @TheAaryanKartik’s at his career best❤️

[Aastha Tiwari @aasthatic]

The invitation card is bigger than 1 BHK in Mumbai😂

[Rajiv Mehta @rajivmehta19]

*Anant Ambani's*
*Wedding Invite*
🤔😳😊

[Bhagawad Gita @Bhgawad_Gita]

Time I am, destroyer of all.