Using the expressions My Lord, Your Honour etc in courts

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PRAKASH JI,

EXCELLENT CONTRIBUTION.

ALL JUDGES ARE NOT CONDUCTING PROCEEDINGS PROTOCALS AS ONE AND THE SAME.

SOME JUDGES WANT HIGH LEVEL KING/MONORC ATTITUDES.

SOME JUDGES WILL BE IN DEMOCRATIC WAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE PRICIPLE

“What is in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet,” said Shakespeare.Likewise we may address a Judge in any manner. He would still be a judge......

Yes. Justice K Chandru of Madras High Court directed Advocates in a right way by banning the use of the terms My lord' and Your lordship' by lawyers addressing his court

Ours is a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC country,not a monarch country.

Sir, I think we are following many  British pracises in law, as we have adopted the legal system mainly from British. So, it has become a practice to address a judge as 'my lord ' or'your lordship'.  I think Justice K Chandru is right in banning the  use of the terms, to suit our social, cultural practices. And I thnk the dress code of advocates should also change according to our climatic conditions rahter than following the age old British practice. Is it not a discomfort to wear a black blazer in scrocting heat ? :)

As per the 2006 new amendment to The Bar council of India Rules it is mandatory now to address the judges of Hon'ble Supreme Court and Hon'ble High courts of our country as Your Honour or Honourable Court and to address the Subordinate court and Tribunal judges as Sir. But the lawyers and others are still adressing the Hon'ble judges as My Lord and Your Lordship. Hence all the bar associations should forthwith pass resolutions as done by Kerala High Court Advocates bar Association, and stop addressing the Hon'ble judges as My Lord or Your Lordship by implementig the new rule. The bold step taken by Justice Chandru is indeed laudable and it should be an inspiration to us

Congrats to Justice K. Chandru and to you too Adv. Y. Prakash for providing this information to us.  Subh ban should be extended over all. Tough high respect should be given to judges and their conduct should also be equally high. Respect is not a matter to claim but it has to be earned by conduct. 

i think the word 'sir' is enough. my lord is too much in this era. if the judge is my lord (The lord of mine)how the verdict challenged in other court? is the lord divorced from the mine?
 

Your Lordship, Your Honour, Your Worship   are ego-inflating words, which keeps the judiciary in high spirits, besides imparting & portraying a conscious respect, in anticipation, by the litigants & legal counsels.

(However portray'able anticipation was taken for granted by Bribes, Corruption, Exam copying and scores of other unethical things)

It is also designed to give a ego'istic tinge of authority over the litigants alongwith with shivers, trembling,  palpitation etc....    However the representing legal counsels, give a blunt heck of such words, once they come out of the court rooms,  which is evident from the loud-mouthed chatters heard in the Bar Rooms  (both in the Advocate's BAR'rooms and in the Liquor BAR'rooms)

Keep Smiling .... Hemant Agarwal

Please can someone help me with the PIL judgement that was filed by Adv Shiv Sagar Tiwari on addressing judges as Mu lord or my honour.I could not get it on the SC judments.