NEW DELHI, March 10 More than 50 years after the Supreme Court itself told the Bar Council to consider changing the mode of addressing a judge, the council has acted.
Calling it a “relic of the colonial past,” the Bar Council of India today adopted a resolution to replace the current “My Lords,” or “Your Lordships” (for Supreme Court and High Court judges) and “Your Honour” (for the lower judiciary), to a “Sir” or “Mr Judge.”
The council has given six weeks to all state units to get back with their views and if no feedback is received, “it would be taken as there is no opinion” and the resolution will hold.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had disposed of a PIL by the Progressive and Vigilant Lawyers Forum seeking to make this change. The court had said that since there was no “hard and fast rule” and it was as “convention” that the Bar had continued with the expression, it was up to the Bar to change it.
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