Supreme Court (SC) Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman (pictured) has been appointed as chairperson of the apex court’s Legal 
Services Committee, according to news reports. The announcement was made via a notification from the union ministry of law and justice. The Committee is empowered to maintain panels of advocates and senior advocates on record in the SC; to receive and scrutinize applications for service and the granting and withdrawal of service among others, noted the website.
Nariman takes over the position following the retirement of controversial Justice Arun Mishra who had held the post since November 2019.
British Prime Minster Sir Winston Churchill’s legacy from his days as a lieutenant in Bangalore still lingers on. "In the year 1899, one Lt W. L. S. Churchill (pictured, Photo: Wikipedia) was put on the Bangalore Club’s list of defaulters…for an amount of Rs 13… for an unpaid bill of the Club…Till date this amount remains unpaid,” noted Nariman while delivering his portion of a judgment in a wealth tax case against the 152-year-old Club, reported the Free Press Journal (FPJ) of September 10. The other two members 
on the bench were Justices Navin Sinha and Indira Banerjee. FPJ stated that when Churchill left the southern city three years later for war in the then Northwest Frontier Province, the outstanding was "subsequently written off as irrecoverable debt.”
"Lt W. L. S. Churchill went on the become Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain. And the Bangalore Club continues its mundane existence, the only excitement being when the tax collector knocks at the door to extract his pound of flesh,” the court added.
"Churchill came to Bangalore in 1896 when he was a lieutenant in the 4th Hussars stationed in the Bangalore cantonment area. Since it was an all-white men’s club, he became a member of the Club,” stated the news report.
"According to the Bangalore Club’s website, Churchill played polo and read a lot of books at the Club during his time as a member and also spent a considerable time ‘courting’ an Englishwoman named Pamela Plowden, who later went on to become Lady Lytton.”