Me, The All-Time Desultory

Thanks to endless reminder from Mr Y, I start re-organising my thoughts and look at the priorities in life. And this has got totally nothing to do with what I’m about to write in the next 2 minutes :p

“Bib” carries the meaning of napkin worn by babies yet all this while, the term has been casually used to address the band a practising laywyer wears around his neck in Courts. I wiki-ed for the right term; barrister’s jabot is called “bands”. However, they are called “collarettes” when worn by ladies over their blouses without collars.

A young lawyer, who appeared before a panel of judges without a collarettes got the firm she works for and her pupilage Master, alas, into trouble (apart from her case being ordered to be taken over by another lawyer) on the ground of not-suitably attired in Malaysia. Situation varied to a self-claimed rookie Malaysian lawyer, who by chance, ended up a good friend of a judge in NZ court for wearing brown shoes when appearing before this High Court judge. How so? The said judge liberally made his point and the lawyer took it by courtesy.

How can not wearing a band be a bar to one’s duty and right to appear before the judge. I seriously see no logic in penalising one for the above ommission. Just why should it be made compulsory and worse still, the said matter was turned into a media event - an overnight bad publicity for the young lady and her firm. What miserable experience that was! Maybe, lessons to learn and all of you young chap out there, please be reminded of the court etiquette/attire the next round you pay judge a visit in Courts.

I wonder how chambering life is gota be like…