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The age-old tradition of advocates in Orissa High Court addressing the Court’s bench comprising Chief Justice Dr S. Muralidhar and justice R.K.Pattanayak as ‘My Lord’, ‘Your Lordship’, ‘Your Honour’ or prefix like ‘Hon’able’ has come to an end with the bench making an appeal in this regard on the first working day of the year today.
The Orissa High Court resumed its function on Monday, and for the bench, a schedule of business for the day was released.
In this list, an appeal has been made to the advocates by the bench to avoid addressing presiding judges with terms like ‘My Lord’, ‘Your Lordship’, ‘Your Honour’ or ‘Hon’able’.
“All counsel and parties in concern are requested to try and avoid addressing the judges of this bench as ‘My Lord’, ‘Your Lordship’, ‘Your Honour’, or with the prefix ‘Hon’able’. Any other form of address, consistent with the decorum of the Court, including ‘Sir’, should suffice,” read the appeal.
Nevertheless, the move by the learned bench is seen as a step towards the reformation of the judicial tradition set into motion by the Colonial authorities.
But it can’t be said as an order or a direction because it has not been made by the Secretariat, by the High Court itself nor is it the High Court’s judgement while hearing any petition. It is still to be seen if other benches and courts will welcome and follow such reformative move.
