Importantly, it defines that anyone should be able to talk with anyone no matter who they are. This poem teaches a wide range of communications skills (used in the english language) and social skills and at the same time seeks to empower each person to be an individual, keep inner strength, and at the same time not lose personal identity and values. A poem that might rightly take its place in learning materials for school children. Kipling wrote that great and wonderful poem 'IF'. You may think I would reference Mahatma Gandi ( ) at this stage, and that would be an excellent reference choice to make, but, no, I have someone else in mind: Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ). So turning back to that intended topic, but non-judicial thought this time, that is this is not the first time a man from India has endeavoured to communicate with people from all walks of life. I have digressed slighly, sorry, from what I originally set out to say. So worth having a read about his work, too. Have a look at wikipedia and see if there are any there that you know?Ī barrister with a common touch whose work I learned about at school and on television (when I was growing up) was Edward Marshall Hall ( ). There are no doubt many others that are not on my radar but might be on yours. I did hear from a few barristers, they thought, that Lord Justice Judge had endeavoured to make a good fist of it in keeping the lines of communication open. A few members of the British Judiciary I can recall in my life time over the last 50 years who were spoken about that endeavoured to keep that common touch: Lord Denning, Lord Wilberforce, Lord Woolf, Lord Bingham. I noted the reference made by Talwant Singh, Member (Judicial), E-Committee of Supreme Court of India, to a quote made by Hunter S Thompson ( ) recently: “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” Quite refreshing to see a senior public figure conversing in a language and using references understood by ordinary man and woman in the street.
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