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Why must we persist in hanging on to colonial-era honorifics, asks Sumit Paul


Why must we persist in hanging on to colonial-era honorifics, asks Sumit Paul
The moment a lawyer, petitioner or even a plaintiff calls me ‘Your Honour’, ‘Your Lordship’, or ‘My Lord’, a sense of uneasiness and embarrassment engulfs my whole existence and I request the person to call me just Mr Justice or Mr Chagla. These unnecessary lofty terms of address smack of slavery and colonial hangover Chief Justice of India M C Chagla
Last week, the Supreme Court took exception to a petitioner addressing the judges as ‘Your Honour’, and reminded that it was the way judges were addressed in the US Supreme Court. ....

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