The End of High Podiums.

 

Court hearing of
The Supreme Court of England
(pic-https://www.supremecourt.uk/)

Bench and Bar may have to be given equal footings, if our system wants to claim any modernity. 

It is a mistaken modernity to think that court rooms become modern by superimposition of clumsy and outdated often dysfunctional desktop computers adjusted somehow on old wooden stools. 

 

Serious lawyers are still grappling with the relevancy of online court proceedings in grave and ponderous court debates where more than a miscellany of orders is needed.

 

We become modern when bar and its lawyers are given respect in court and freedom to plead and argue without any sense of colonialism. 

Court room of the youngest
Supreme Court in the World 
(pic-https://www.supremecourt.uk/)

High podiums were meant to give a sense of high and low to both sides. They were invented when the concept of equality before law and equal status in courtrooms were in nascent stage. Practice of equality may start from courtrooms designs by ending the colonial legacy of high podiums.

 

The youngest Supreme Court of the world have already deleted House of Lords and their High Podiums. There are only judges, lawyers, and the law. 

 

Elevations have been replaced by Appointments. Petitions have been replaced by Forms, Prayers have been replaced by Claims. Begging have been replaced by Arguments.

 

Kartikey