{"id":275499,"date":"2021-06-15T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-rare-peek-into-justice-rosalie-abellas-office\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:53:26","slug":"a-rare-peek-into-justice-rosalie-abellas-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-rare-peek-into-justice-rosalie-abellas-office\/","title":{"rendered":"#A rare peek into Justice Rosalie Abella’s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A rare peek into Justice Rosalie Abella’s office<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n In a remarkable glimpse of her life inside the Supreme Court, Rosalie Abella explains to Paul Wells the history and significance of what hangs on the walls of her office\n <\/div>\n
\n See an annotated photo of her office below.<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Wells: <\/strong>Is all of this stuff for you? Or is it for visitors?<\/p>\n

Rosalie Abella:<\/strong> It\u2019s for me. And it started in the family court, where I didn\u2019t have a lot of visitors. And, by the way, where I never had family pictures, because when I did have lawyers come in, and the job involved painful decisions about families, I didn\u2019t want pictures of my own kind of shining out, in contrast to what we were dealing with. Until I got to the Supreme Court, I don\u2019t think I ever had pictures of my kids or my family. So in the family court, they were always happ<\/a>y, whimsical pictures. It occurred to me after a while that what I was doing was collecting images that were whimsical and antidotes to the pain I was hearing in the courtroom. It wasn\u2019t conscious. I did not set out to do it. But I realized that what I was doing was giving myself something that was soothing, after the emotional turmoil of some of the cases I was hearing.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t what you expect to see in a judge\u2019s office. But what you do expect to see in a judge\u2019s office is what makes the judge comfortable working in that office. Some people need nothing. If you went to [my husband] Itchie\u2019s office, you wouldn\u2019t have been able to find any floor to step on because there are books everywhere. Just books. But for me, it\u2019s always been something that relaxes my brain, and I look up and smile and feel happier.<\/p>\n