“Always wear a raincoat while entering in a courtroom”.. About in 1987, a senior advocate of Junagadh District Court gave me this advice.

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

That senior lawyer was later elevated as judge of Gujarat High Court and presently he is retired.

In courtrooms, judges are often brewing with disturbing facts of their cases.

Judges have the right to express their reactions. They have the right to vent their angry reactions also.

Sometimes they get angry and upset 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. 

A 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.

(Copyright ) Haresh Raichura 26th March 2024

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