New Delhi, May 10 -- It was an evening filled with haute courtroom humour, light-hearted wit and an awful-lot of lawful-anecdotes as the Solicitor General of India (SGI) Tushar Mehta on Sunday launched his two non-fiction books -- The Bench, The Bar and the Bizarre and The Lawful and the Awful -- before an audience comprising legal luminaries, judges, politicians and lay readers.

Through both books, Mehta attempts to explore the lighter and often bizarre side of the legal profession through real courtroom anecdotes drawn entirely from foreign jurisdictions.

Interestingly, Mehta made it clear that he consciously chose to keep Indian courts, judges and legal incidents out of the books because he continues to practise before Indian courts....