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Must confess I don't referred to barristers as "my learned friend". I refer to them by name or just "my friend". Never had an issue and it's "just" a convention after all.

I do wonder that the judge has to help the layperson out though. A few words of explanation, certainly, but referring them to cases? That would lead to a waste of judicial time and potential appeals if the judge gives the wrong case.

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