Reasons: Why Lawyers and Judges address each other as LEARNED FRIENDS? How you can also become LEARNED
There is a tradition in Courts. Lawyers and Judges address one another as Learned Brothers or as Learned Friends.
Suppose you are given a paper to read and than you are asked what this paper was about? What did it say?
If you can answer it correctly, it can be said that you have UNDERSTOOD it.
But then next step is to LEARN what you have understood.
If after a gap of some days you are again asked what did that paper contain, then if you can repeat again contents of that paper, the meaning of what the paper said, its implication, consequences etc.. then you have LEARNED it.
This is what lawyers and judges do everyday. It their office or at home they read and understand what the case is about it. Then they learn it.
Next time, whenever the case is called out, the lawyers and judges are in position to say what is the case about. What are the basic facts and what are the basic facts.
They have learned their cases. After the case is disposed, they do not need to retain this knowledge, so they unlearn the facts, but retain the knowledge about new law which they may have learned.
This is why Lawyers and Judges address one another as Learned Brother or Learned Friend.
Haresh Raichura
16/8/13