Recently, Justice Jyoti Mulimani, Karnataka High Court, has also commented regarding the the colonial practices of addressing Judges as "Your Lordship/ My Lord and said "The learned Members of The Bar are requested to address the Court as 'Madam". She is the second Judge of Karnataka High Court who suggested to call her Court by not using Your Lordship/ My Lord.
In April this year, Justice Krishna Bhat had requested to lawyers appearing before his Court to avoid using colonial terms "Your lordship"/ "My Lord".
Many more Judges also suggested to lawyers for addressing the court with phrases like "Sir" or "Madam" which has the dignity of the Court.
An observation regarding this was given by Supreme Court during hearing of a PIL moved by an Advocate Shiv Sagar Tiwari in 2014, to pray for removal of the practice of addressing Judges as "Your Lordship" and "My Lord", while dismissing the PIL the Bench of H L Dattu and S A Bobde said "When did we say it is compulsory? You can only call us in a dignified manner". "How can this negative adress us as Lordship, we don't say anything. We only say address us respectfully".
Last year CJ Thattathil B Radhakrishnan had also suggested not only to lawyer but also to all officers of district judiciary to the Court as "Sir".
Present Chief Justice of Orissa High Court S Muralidhar had requested Lawyers to avoid using terms "Your Lordship"/ "My Lord" when appearing his Court.
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