The debate around court etiquette in India was triggered again on February 23, 2021 after a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) S A Bobde objected to a petitioner addressing judges as \u201cYour Honour\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen you call us Your Honour, you either have the Supreme Court of United States or the Magistrate in mind. We are neither,\u201d the CJI told the petitioner, a law student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, there have been efforts to purge from courtroom protocol salutations such as \u201cMy Lord\u201d and \u201cYour Lordship\u201d \u2014 a practice inherited from British rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Advocates Act of 1961, under section 49(1)(c), empowers the Bar Council of India to make rules on professional and etiquette standards to be observed by advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To address this issue, a Resolution by the Bar Council of India in 2006 added Chapter IIIA to Part VI of the BCI Rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interestingly, while the 2006 notification discouraged the use of \u201cMy Lord\u201d and \u201cYour Lordship\u201d, it prescribed \u201cYour Honour\u201d or \u201cHon\u2019ble Court\u201d as an acceptable way for addressing the Supreme Court & High Courts, and \u201cSir\u201d in Subordinate Courts and Tribunals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The debate around court etiquette in India was triggered again on February 23, 2021 after a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) S A Bobde objected to a petitioner addressing judges as \u201cYour Honour\u201d. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 \u201cWhen you call us Your Honour, you either have the Supreme Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":37597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1390],"tags":[1275],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-37596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2021","tag-indian-polity-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37598,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37596\/revisions\/37598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37596"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=37596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}