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CHENNAI: Selfies, Instagram stories and infectious excitement took over the usually solemn Madras high court campus on Wednesday, as about 4,700 of young law graduates, largely from Gen Z, thronged the premises to celebrate their enrolment as advocates with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The celebration reached its peak with bursting crackers and loud bands on the NSC Bose Road and the North Fort Road, bringing the traffic to a standstill for over 45 minutes, as all forms of celebrations are banned inside the court premises. Recalling her own enrolment as an advocate in the same Bar on the same day 38 years ago, she said: “I would say and firmly believe that seven lamps of advocacy — lamps are honesty, courage, industry, wit, eloquence, judgement, and fellowship — as written by Sir Edward Abbott Parry (a British judge/barrister) is completely applicable to our lawyers and our profession in India.
Earlier, Justice V Mohana, judge, Supreme Court , addressed them and said sky was the limit for young lawyers to achieve in the profession. In his felicitations, Chief Justice of Madras high court Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari said, “From this day you are officers of the court and servants of justice.