{"id":298,"date":"2006-04-21T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-04-21T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T08:49:59","slug":"addressing-the-judges-to-change-in-ireland-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the Judges to change in Ireland and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Group of judges (or whatever is the collective noun)\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthform.info\/lawblog\/files\/images.jpg\" border=0><br \/>In the <strong>Republic of Ireland<\/strong> judges will no longer be referred to as &#8220;My Lord&#8221; or &#8220;Your Lordship&#8221;. Judges will now be referred to as simply &#8220;Judge&#8221;.&nbsp; Referring to judges as &#8220;lords&#8221; is thought to be old fashioned and obsolete in a republican democratic state. <\/p>\n<p>In <strong>India<\/strong> they have shed their wigs and now they have renounced &#8220;lordship&#8221; as a title. Indian judiciary wishes rid itself of colonial tag it acquired from the British Raj; &#8220;Lord&#8221; is thought to be a relic of slavery. <br \/>According to a resolution adopted by the Bar Council of India &#8211; a body of nearly one million lawyers &#8211; the Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts will be addressed as &#8220;Your Honour&#8221; or &#8220;Hon&#8217;ble Court&#8221;.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Republic of Ireland judges will no longer be referred to as &#8220;My Lord&#8221; or &#8220;Your Lordship&#8221;. Judges will now be referred to as simply &#8220;Judge&#8221;.&nbsp; Referring to judges as &#8220;lords&#8221; is thought to be old fashioned and obsolete in a republican democratic state. In India they have shed their wigs and now they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}