{"id":30804,"date":"2013-11-12T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=30804"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:57:08","slug":"plea-addressing-lordship-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/plea-addressing-lordship-sir","title":{"rendered":"Plea on addressing &#8216;Your Lordship&#8217; as &#8216;Sir&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sathashivam.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30805\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/plea-addressing-lordship-sir\/sathashivam\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/sathashivam.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sathashivam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/sathashivam.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30805\" alt=\"sathashivam\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sathashivam.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/sathashivam.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/sathashivam.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Monday asked whether any direction was required for enforcing the Bar Council of India&#8217;s rule that judges should be addressed as &#8220;Sir&#8221; instead of the existing practice of addressing the apex court and high court judges as &#8220;My Lord&#8221; or &#8220;Your Lordship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked the PIL petitioner, advocate Shiv Sagar Tiwari, &#8220;whether any mandamus is required for enforcing the Bar Council Rule&#8221; asking that judges should be addressed as &#8220;Sir&#8221; or any other equivalent word.<\/p>\n<p>After Tiwari said every rule made by the Bar Council was mandatory to be observed, the court recused from hearing the matter, asking it to be listed before another bench.<\/p>\n<p>The court had to do so as Justice Gogoi said he would not hear the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Gogoi along with another judge was part of the bench where the presiding judge insisted that the court should be addressed as &#8220;Lordship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The petition said Bar Council rules have been amended to address the court as &#8220;Sir or the equivalent word in respective legal languages in place of &#8216;My Lord&#8217; or &#8216;Your Honour&#8217; which is the relic of colonial past&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner advocate said that unless the apex court issued a &#8220;writ in the nature of mandamus, the Hon&#8217;ble Judges in the courts and the advocates appearing in the courts will not follow the amended Bar Council of India Rules which are mandatory now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to May 6, 2006, amended Rules of the Bar Council of India, the PIL petitioner advocate said: &#8220;To maintain the honour of the country and to get rid of slavery system, it is essential to issue a writ in the nature of mandamus commanding all the courts in the country not to accept the words &#8216;My Lord&#8217; or &#8216;Your Lordship&#8217; addressed by any person either advocate or someone else appearing in the court&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Source:IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Monday asked whether any direction was required for enforcing the Bar Council of India&#8217;s rule that judges should be addressed as &#8220;Sir&#8221; instead of the existing practice of addressing the apex court and high court judges as &#8220;My Lord&#8221; or &#8220;Your Lordship&#8221;. 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