"I left India the day ADM Jabalpur was delivered."

"Once you take up a cause, you must do your best for your client. Doing the best means doing everything, which is legitimate. You secure a good result but by means, which are fair. So long as you recognise that your duties to the client co-exist with some duties, which you owe as an officer of the court to the court, and as a member of the public. Doing the best for your client does not mean forgetting everything else." Senior Advocate and former Chairman of the Bar Council of India, Ram Jethmalani was responding to a question about the importance of an advocate's personal conviction in a decision to accept or reject a brief.
"Nobody should be convicted or punished without adequate convincing evidence."
The role of an advocate is to point out the defects in the evidence and then leave it to the judge to decide. There is an express rule that no advocate shall refuse to defend an accused who is standing his trial on the grounds that the defence will bring him unpopularity, or citing some personal inconvenience, or that he believes him to be guilty. He said that while he agreed that there were great ethical rules, he was not convinced about how many advocates follow these rules.
"The very fact that you call it a profession, you are putting yourself in a class separate from a trader or a business. A businessman can advertise, he wants to increase his business, he can create business. A lawyer cannot advertise to get a fee or earn money from it. The first duty of a lawyer is to prevent people from going to court."
He recollected one of the recent lawyer jokes he had come across. "The pharmaceutical laboratories in the United States have taken a decision to stop using rats in their scientific experiments and start using lawyers instead. Their reasons were (1) lawyers are more numerous than rats, (2) it is difficult to fall in love with lawyers as occasionally we fall in love with our rats, and (3) there are some things which lawyers do that even our rats do not do."
He also spoke about his departure from India during the height of the Emergency. "The Bombay Bar did stand by me. When I left India on the day that the Supreme Court pronounced that notorious judgment -- ADM Jabalpur, they let us down, the Indian Constitution, and democracy down. The day I left, we had a meeting at Palkhivala's house. I told them I was prepared to go to jail. There were 101 lawyers undergoing imprisonment in the Nashik jail alone. I was prepared to be the hundred and second lawyer. But, if I was outside India, I would be able to carry on propaganda about the fake Emergency that was declared in India. I was the Chairman of the Bar Council at that time."
"No less a person than the Commissioner of Police escorted me to the plane. I was not a criminal lawyer in vain. I am the only Indian who got political asylum in the United States. I was teaching and going around the country informing the people of the manner in which the Indian democracy was betrayed."
He was also a great opponent of preventive detention. "At some extreme case like war, preventive detention may be necessary."
His displeasure for Nehru's legacy is not a secret. "According to me, Nehru is responsible for most of the problems that India is facing today. Unfortunately, we have become a nation of flatterers."

[@riffraff8020]

RAM JETHMALANI IS A GREAT INTELLIGENT LAWYER.

[@tkmlawacademy4924]

Murugan

[@aakashsingh409]

I am never bored of these anecdotes.

[@azlanameer4912]

ufffff what a man!!! Wisdom flowing out of his mouth. stay blessed.

[@makhan5062]

He died.

[@makarandkulkarni589]

Thanks to the channel for showing this video. Especially at a period when S C is firm in protecting the abuse of Constitution.

[@jayj5535]

I got this in my recommendations in 2020

[@maxwell8050]

Me 2 but why I think of harsad mehta videos

[@constar401]

Our developing countries need people like this gentleman who speaks professionalism. People particularly poor people want law enforcement and justice.

[@mohitdhanwani6431]

One of the greatest lawyers of all time but almost always he defended the corrupt and evil who were able to pay him good money.

[@imrnayan]

Who is this man?

[@sumitkain]

@@imrnayan The fact that you’re on a KZbin channel related to Law and you ask who this man is, it’s the funniest and the weirdest !!!

[@nithyaanand3475]

Great words indeed

[@sanjayvakilgwalior]

Bold statement ! Logical because- supported by Rules of Bar Council of India re: conduct of the lawyers.

[@nikhil6719]

I Ram jethmalani ,Fali s Nari ,Nani palkhiwala , The most prominent jurists of India. They are the protector of our constitution. Thank you sir ❤

[@jyothijonnala6496]

We are amused to know that you are thorough and fluent in Mughal history during the British Empire

[@abdulazizqureshi2886]

Great Hero

[@NikhilThokal]

5:09

[@ranarituraj588]

He defended lalu prasad, that shows his utopian ethics

[@AkashGupta-zx9iw]

It's his right to represent whosoever he wishes, there is a rule of Bar council.

[@rudrankpatel379]

@@AkashGupta-zx9iw these are morons who can't understand simple English and you are trying to teach them law, don't waste time man

[@vivekshukla1387]

every lawyer has right to defend his client no matter what type of crime he has done

[@magnified4827]

Same as a Doctor/Surgeon who has a pledge to treat his patient no matter who they are.

[@kunalraizada7113]

But defending should morally right free of malpractices

[@salveruajay9553]

Hence justice is no more

[@aliyanderrajurs9953]

Unfortunately we ave too many crooks in our country and it is a huge task to completely eradicate, but with very good people in judiciary/police and govt you can control to benefit the common man.

[@user-wl5xi9ig6l]

Bhisma Pitamah and Guru Drona fought on side of Adharma, knowingly, but they were given heaven just for the fact that they performed their respective duties and did not switch sides. This is what Ram jethmalani did.

[@sirajuddaulah2463]

What is the name of this interviewee?

[@aashishshukla3162]

Where the interviewer is watching.

[@90siddharth]

he defended kanimozhi .. its his profession.. he admires subramanyam swami and says that he is working for the nation.

[@advaswanimv1167]

History 👍🏻

[@jyothijonnala6496]

The invading shades of darkness looming large over British India... The anchor missed about the aspirations of Mr. Ram Jethmalani on the nomination for the post of President of India in this episode. In 2010 I had a great inclination to see this noted advocate on Gujarat which later was avoided anyway.

[@shankarmore9999]

Sallute Sir

[@aajdhuniyayourrighttoknow.9510]

2021

[@neetakaur2104]

Jethmalani you didn't go by the law when you tried defending Asaram ??

[@ROHITSINGH-fw2lm]

Law is profession there is no boundation. there is no need certificate from others person why he taken case of lalu hawala or other.

[@akarshblog6420]

The more I go deep in history, the more I start hating Congress.

[@aryanmishra3776]

Puttaswamy v. Union of India

[@rabindrapalai9672]

Ekadashi 1.

[@mamamia8511]

oppurtunist..who kept bouncing from party to party to seek nirvana ..i guess

[@APNACHHINDWARA750]

sir kya 2 mah ke child ko god le sakte h

[@sandeepthakur493]

Hanji le sakte hain

[@gov544]

this guy is defending Kamazohi in 2 G spectrum case..... Any moral explanation to that?????

[@lifeinmemories]

Apart from Kanimoli case, He defended Harshad Mehta, Assassins of Indira Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi, LK Advani in the Hawala case (of course, it was a genuine case & he won it), Laloo Yadav in the foder scam case, Jayalalitha's corruption case, Yeddyurappa's illegal mining case, Mumbai's underworld don & smuggler Haji Mastan, Afzal Guru on the Parliament attack case, Jessica Lal case, Asaram Bapu case etc. - almost in all of them he was defending the negative side.

[@apoorvjoshi7488]

I think he was just carrying out his duty. If not him, somebody else would have done it. As a lawyer, you cant listen to someone's confession and then deny them your service based on whether the person is guilty. It's like he said "your word should be as good as a bond, bond should be as good as a bank loan"

[@sarbarthasinha8458]

Go through bci rules

[@CHIDANANDANATHA]

shame on his hypocrisy. he is rightly labeled as the devil's lawyer. he would have even defended kasab

[@priyambadadas5318]

This gentleman is a brilliant lawyer. Have you heard of fair trial ? Everyone deserves that. Everyone deserves a good representation. He by defending an accused is doing his job, he isn't declaring the accused as innocent. Because that is a judge's job. So yes, the moral explanation to that is the fair trial everyone deserves.