Sweltering heat takes its toll on legal eagles

As they perambulate the corridors of the hallowed institution, they could be seen frantically using their legal documents to fan themselves from the debilitating heat and using the sleeves of their lofty gowns to wipe sweat from their brows.  This writer cannot put a finger on the exact number in degrees Celsius, but by estimation, the past two weeks must have scaled to the wrong side of the 40.

Take Friday last week. The spaciousness of Courtroom Three could not assuage the heat that consumed all and sundry inside the room. To make matters worse, it had its wide windows, behind Justice Terrence Rannowane, hermetically shut, as if a slight hint of air through them might cause some kind of disaster. Perhaps, this could explain Rannowane's burst of temper when an accused person kept waving his hand after being led into the dock.