In the higher courts in India such as the Supreme Court and the state high courts, you will come across a bizarre colonial tradition of lawyers addressing the judges as “My Lord” and “Your Lordship”. According to top 10 breaking news in India in Hindi today, the Bar Association of Allahabad High Court has passed a resolution stating that going forward, lawyers of this bar association will not address the judges as “My Lord” and “Your Lordship”. The lawyers of this bar association can address the judges as “Sir/Madam”, which are respectable enough.
Sections of India’s intelligentsia who control many important institutions, still suffer from a weird colonial hangover. The state high courts like the Allahabad High Court, Bombay High court, Madras High Court still have not changed the names of these high courts in relation to the new names of these cities as per the latest samachar in Hindi.
While adopting the resolution, president of the Allahabad High Court Bar Association Senior Advocate Anil Tiwari and Vikrant Pandey, general secretary referred to the statement of the Chief Justice of India [CJI], who had said that judges should not view themselves as gods.
Why top lawyers in India follow such disgraceful norms
The very idea that a highly educated and erudite individual like a High Court or Supreme Court lawyer should be addressing a judge as “My Lord” and “Your Lordship” is nauseous.
However, the topmost lawyers of the country who charge upwards of Rs. 20 lakhs for a single hearing, are into this disgraceful colonial practice as per latest headlines Hindi news live.
In fact, these are the biggest proponents of this disgraceful practice because they like to think of themselves as the inheritors of the British Raj in India. They, feel that it is for them push such servile norms down the throats of all other lawyers in India.
In such circumstances, it was only a question of time before the matter came to a boil and it did at the Allahabad High Court although for a different reason. Here the Bar Association has gone on strike against judicial misconduct and overreach as per the latest samachar in Hindi.
Is addressing judges as “My Lord”, “Your Lordship” the main issue?
Addressing judges as sir/madam is in no way disrespectful and there can be no issue with that. There is no rule that specifies judges to be addressed as as “My Lord” and “Your Lordship” and honestly if there is to be any today, it will be defied.
To the credit of the judiciary, the Supreme Court had stated in 2014 that it is not necessary to address judges as “My Lord”, “Your Lordship” or “Your Honour” as per the top 10 breaking news in India in Hindi today.
Hence, the issue of how judges are to be addressed is not an issue at all as long as no disrespect is shown to them nor anyone misbehaves with them.
Despite that a few celebrity lawyers who think of themselves as the inheritors of the British colonial system in India, continue to address the judges as “My Lord” and “Your Lordship” according to the latest headlines Hindi news live.
The Allahabad High Court Bar Association has gone on strike not for this issue; they have an issue with the misconduct and misbehaviour of certain judges of the high court towards many lawyers of this court.
They made the decision about not addressing judges as “My Lord” and “Your Lordship” to make a point to the erring judges not to take undue advantage of their positions. Not addressing these judges as “My Lord” and “Your Lordship” will send a message to these judges not to push the lawyers too far.
