Pragativahini News, Belagavi –“Young lawyers should be ready to face the challenges that will be posed by emerging fields of technologies like data mining and artificial intelligence that will affect the work of lawyers,’’ Justice B. M. Shyam Prasad, Judge of High Court of Karnataka said in Belagavi on Friday.
He was speaking at the inauguration of the M K Nambyar Moot national court competition at KLS R. L Law college.
“ We are at the cusp of another technological innovations that will affect all walks of life. The work of lawyers will also be affected by advanced technology. We should all be prepared for it,’’ he said. He urged young law graduates and law schools to open up themselves to such developments. He felt that events like moot court competitions are opportunities to expose students to such areas of knowledge. He pointed out that the earliest moot court competition about space law was held in India in 1992.
“The earliest moot courts in this country were in 1962. In thirty years, they had evolved enough to discuss issues of space law,’’ he said. He said moot courts helped students to discuss new ideas and effective ways to present those ideas. “Sometimes, a seed sown in moot court develops into a special branch of law,’’ he said.
Moot courts train lawyers in simulated environments, just as pilots are trained in simulated environments. But pilots need experience and wisdom to navigate through turbulence, he said. Similarly, lawyers also face turbulence when the judge asks most unexpected, inconvenient questions. They have to pass through it by their ingenuity and experience, he said.
Anant Mandagi, president, Karnataka Law Society said that unlike in old times, today’s lawyers are being trained in truly professional manner. He advised budding advocates not to mislead either the client, or the court on facts and never to give false assurances to clients. A lawyer needs to be strong on facts and law. That would build her reputation, he said.
S V Ganachari, college Governing council chairman, welcomed the gathering, and spoke of the history of the 81 year old college. Prof Satish Anikhindi said that Attorney General of India K K Venugopal had instituted the awards for the competition in memory of his father M K Nambyar.
Society member Pradeep Sawkar, principal A H Hawaldar, student representatives Sachidananda Patil, Megha Somannanavar, Nivedita Dixit, and others were present.
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