[Book Review]: The Bench, the Bar, and the Bizarre by Tushar Mehta: The absurd theatre of the legal profession
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Lawyers spend a large part of their professional lives pretending that the legal system is an entirely rational and dignified enterprise. The courtroom is often a stage - a judge threatens contempt because someone interrupted at the wrong time, a lawyer says “I am obliged” immediately after being demolished in court, or an entire hearing collapses into a debate about procedure no litigant fully understands.Tushar Mehta's The Bench, the Bar, and the Bizarre lives in this space between instit