Monday, 26 August 2013

The concept of training a judge must mean modulating a person's mindset, trimming his thinking process, deleting earlier prejudices from the person's personality and rewriting his personality on a wider social plane which must confirm the legal drawing.
A judge is like a mason who erects, constructs  strictly as per law.
Judges are members of constitutional army and are there to safeguard the constitutional boundaries of nation.
Judges are never guided by political warfare. They are guided by political philosophy as determined by constitution adopted by te nation and accepted by we the people.
Training a judge must be aimed at enhancing the knowledge and skills to judge transparently. A judge must be capable of researching law and digging out truthful facts. A judge must learn the art of not falling in the trap of skilled professional lawyers and at the same time must trust them because they are the best identifiers of risk factors. Advocates help the court and the judge in management of rick that is inherently inbuilt in justice delivery system.
Person coming to court for justice, brought to court for justice, dragged to court for justice,all are in different mind sets having different objectives and for each of them justice mean  their own view point. All have certain forces for or against them. All forces compete before the judge. These forces are handled , manned, guided by advocates and they know how these forces are competing with each other in that particular circumstances.
A judge has to be trained to identify the stakeholders distinctly. A judge must know that he has to respond to law, individual expectations,  and social ans state constraints.
A judge must know the resources that are available and try to ascertain ground reality. Generally speaking a judge has to declare the rights duties and status of a person and the standards of behaviour. He is not concerned about the consequences but at the same time being a state functionary and dealing with law and human being, its worth and dignity  he cannot altogether ignore the fall outs.

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