 Good evening everybody. Thanks to the lawyers for democracy and justice and also lawyers collective, particularly to Madan Indra Jaisingh, for giving me this opportunity to speak and share some of the instances I saw in the recent past with you. When we talk of the appointment, etc., of the judges, the independence of the judiciary and all, what happens is we have, we can create mechanism, we have some mechanism in existence, we can think of new mechanism. But what is important is, what is the role that is played by the bar? Are we having a bar which is not only independent, but also vigilant in dealing with the issues that arise from on a day to day basis? We need to have a bar which is not only independent, but speaks in one voice. To share with you some of the instances, recently I was part of a meeting of the Caribbean Commonwealth Bar Association, where the bar leaders from across the Caribbean, 15 Caribbean jurisdictions got together to revive their bar association, which is called Organization of Caribbean Commonwealth Bar Association. They invited a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice, which is equivalent to Privy Council, Justice Adrian Sanders, who is right now being designated as the Chief Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice. In his speech, who came on Skype to speak to the bar leaders, among other things what he said was two important things. One, he said, there is a failure of criminal justice system across the Caribbean. It is you as a federal bar across the Caribbean countries who should be proactive in dealing with the situation. Number two, there are few jurisdictions in the Caribbean where there are acting Chief Justices. Why acting? It is you as a federal bar. The individual bars might not be in a position to take up the issue, but you as a federal bar can raise your voice to deal with the issue and the judge went on to court the instance which happened in Jamaica. On 31st of January, I happened to be in Jamaica and on that day, the then Chief Justice of Jamaica was laying down the office. Towards the end of various presentations that took place, I was witnessing there, an announcement came from the Attorney General reading out a message from the Prime Minister of the country, recommending the number two judge, Justice Sykes, to be appointed tomorrow, from tomorrow onwards as acting Chief Justice. After the end of the meeting, I was just asking the President of the Bar, the Chief Justice is laying down the office today, midnight. From tomorrow onwards, the vacancy is clear. Why acting? The President of the Bar told me, yes, even we are surprised. After a week's time, the Bar Association meets. The entire Bar Association met and passed a resolution asking the executive, why acting? A week thereafter, the entire judiciary of Jamaica, they meet on a working day and passed a resolution asking the executive, why acting? So by this time, about two weeks passed, nothing happened. Thereafter, the Bar Association got ready to file a petition in the Supreme Court they have to adjudicate upon this issue, inviting the court's attention to adjudicate upon the issue. Thereafter, the Attorney General comes forward, talks to the Bar Association President, the Attorney General tries to tell the Bar, we are right now talking to the Prime Minister, wait for a while before we get, you get our response. Thereafter, whatever happened, the Bar Association President gets a letter from the Attorney General saying that Justice Sykes has been recommended by the Prime Minister after having a word with the Leader of the Opposition to be appointed as the Chief Justice. And on 1st of March, this month, on 1st of March, Justice Sykes has been appointed as the regular Chief Justice of Jamaica. What I am trying to say is, the entire Bar there spoke with one voice. The entire judiciary spoke with one voice. And we saw the result. Can we not visualize something like that here in India? After we saw the incidents that happened on 18th of January, I shared this with a Leader of the Bar in Australia. He responded by saying, things seems to be messy in India. Has the Bar chipped in? Was a question he asked. I didn't have an answer. Probably, I got an answer today. By the way, the Lawyers for Democracy and Lawyers Corrective have taken this initiative. Probably, this will grow and the entire Bar across the country would become vigilant and we will have fruitful results. Thank you.