Seriousness of the General Court

Personally, I like it when the court has a certain distance to seriousness and does not treat Seriousness with deadly seriousness. I will give three examples: during the hearing at +33 st. Celsujsza Court recommended at the meeting of the court: “Gentlemen patrons, please remove the toga, the Court will also remove the toga”. And so we all did. Twenty years ago, the late Mec. A. (whom I mentioned on another occasion) did not turn off his mobile phone before the trial.

When the phone rang during the hearing, Mec. took the phone out of his pocket and – to the seriousness of the Court – hued in the withers and slid the phone under the bench top at which he was sitting. I was horrified that the Court would erupt in anger. But no. When Patron was already squatting under the bench, he said with a loud tubular whisper to the whole room: “I’m in court, I can’t talk now. Well, I tell you I can’t talk.” I hung up. The court seemed to have seen it at all. And sometime at the hearing, the President fell asleep. We sat quietly for a while and headed for what would happen next. The witness stood quietly and waited. Fortunately, the knock of the machine woke the President. “Homo sum humani nihil a me alienum puto.”