India, Oct. 10 -- The recent Supreme Court incident, where a lawyer threw a shoe at the Chief Justice citing religious sentiment, goes beyond mere misconduct - it strikes at the core principles that allow advocates to argue and challenge within the law

Robert Kennedy famously stated, "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." This is particularly relevant when the said "men" in question are the lawyers themselves, i.e, a person who is trained and qualified to advise people about the law and to represent them in court. Therefore, for lawyers themselves, to renege on that professional faith of oath to uphold the majesty of justice is to betray that very oath that gave...