GK
RTI ACT 2005
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Question
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Mr. Justice
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Honble Sir
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My Lord
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Your Excellency
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Detailed explanation-1: -You call (judges) Sir, it is accepted. You call it Your Honour, it is accepted. You call Lordship it is accepted. These are some of the appropriate ways of expression, and we accept everything, ‘’ the Bench had said.
Detailed explanation-2: -New Delhi: Judges should be addressed in courts in a respectful and dignified manner and it is not compulsory to call them ’´my lord’´, ’´your lordship’´ or ’´your honour’´, the Supreme Court today said. ’´When did we say it is compulsory.
Detailed explanation-3: -The origin of the address “My Lord” certainly goes back to the disgraceful colonial era. Since the judges of the Supreme Court of England were holding Lordship, which was a typical feudal title of the British system, they were addressed by the British lawyers as “My Lord” or “My Lady”.
Detailed explanation-4: -It says that the judges of Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, High Court is supposed to be addressed as ‘My Lord’ or ‘My Lady’. Circuit judges are to be addressed as ‘Your Honour’ and District Judges and Magistrates and other judges as ‘Sir or Madam’.
Detailed explanation-5: -a respectful form of address used to a judge, bishop, or nobleman.