
As in the case of the entrance to the Underworld in Dante’s Inferno, the practice of the law in Sri Lanka should ideally have a warning sign stating ‘abandon hope, all ye who enter here.’ In particular, and only slightly in jest, such a warning should be issued to hopeful new entrants in this day and age who don their black coats for the first time with feelings of trepidation as they tiptoe gingerly to take their oaths as attorneys before the Supreme Court.
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