No need of "my lord" - "sir" is good enough
"YOU don't need to call us 'my lord' or 'lordship' always; calling us 'sir' is good enough for us.", said a Supreme Court Bench yesterday dismissing a petition filed by a 75 year old lawyer who wanted a directive restraining all lawyers from addressing judges as "your lordship", "my lord" etc,. The court said that it never took exception when lawyers or litigants addressed judges as 'sir' and it told the petitioner that if the lawyers felt so strongly about addressing the judges, they should ask bar associations to issue directions, restraining them from calling judges 'my lord' or 'lordship'.
Most of the lawyers are interested in winning cases and are not bothered about how they address the judges. There are some lawyers who address even Commissioners as "my lords".
A judge fell into a ditch and a lawyer pulled him out. "Is your honour hurt", asked the lawyer. "Stupid fellow, can't you see it's my head that is hurt, not my honour?", replied the judge.