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BRITISH CHEVENING/YOUNG INDIAN LAWYERS PROGRAMME |
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"I got selected for The British Chevening/Young Lawyers Programme in 1997.
The three months course was a blast. We went to the College of Law in York. The lectures were interesting, and the city was beautiful - especially the daffodils (yes, they were all that Wordsworth told us).
I went sight seeing every weekend. I then went to London (which I had been to several times before but never to the Royal Courts of Justice and Old Bailey). There's nothing like the experience of sitting through a Mafia Court trial in Old Bailey!
At present, I am working out of the Bechtel offices in Black Friars and Old Bailey. Do I go to many trials? No, work is too hectic, but I know it's a place every lawyer should visit, when in London.
We also got work experience in a London law firm. Where would you ever get an opportunity like that?
Just after I got back from the scholarship I got an offer from Bechtel (A multi-national construction company) to join their Legal Department. I did take up the offer. I am in London, San Francisco, and Singapore several times a year, working out of their offices.
I got the confidence and exposure to deal with an assignment like this from the Chevening Scholarship. At the College of Law in York, they gave us talks on the directives. I got an urgent email from my commercial department asking me about Article 29: Article 29 of Directive 92/50/EEC. With my Delhi University Law school background I wouldn't have known about EU Directives. But I remembered something about it from my York lectures, looked up the article on the Internet and
voil á
I had the commercial guys impressed!
The Chevening Scholarship does a lot for you. I remember when I was going for the course someone told me: 'It will be what you make of it'. I think I did make something of it, and it's helped me to get where I am today."
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