🤔 “Always wear a raincoat while entering in a courtroom”.. About 36 year ago, a senior advocate of Junagadh District Court gave me this advice.

I liked this advice so much that till today I follow this advice.

In courtrooms, judges are often brewing with disturbing facts of their cases. Sometimes they get angry over advocates. It is natural. In psychology it is known as “Transfer of Anger”. A judge may have been angry over a case. Then sometimes his anger spills out on lawyers. Lawyers feel hurt when they come out from the court.

On one such day, as I came out from the court of a short tempered civil judge, the senior lawyer advised me, “Never bother about what judges say to us during hearing of a case. Just wear a raincoat. After coming out from court, just forget words of judges as if they are rain drops on your raincoat. His words will slip away from the raincoat and you will never feel hurt by words of a judges, which they might have spoken during heat of a bad case.”

Till today, I have followed his advice and I have never felt hurt by words of any judge.

I wish that all seniors should give such advice their to juniors.