From: RONALD REBELLO
To: Times of India
Cc: Bar Council of India ; Supreme Court of India ; HC Kerala ; HC Bihar ; HC Bombay ; HC Rajasthan ; HC Gauhati ; HC Gujarat
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:50 AM
Subject: May it NOT please your "Lordship" !
To
THE EDITOR
TIMES OF INDIA
Mumbai
With respect to the tenets of natural justice – May it NOT please your “Lordships”!
I hope the article “Come to Judgment, my Lord” (TOI Nov. 18) is read in good spirit by our judges and lawyers. Colonial hangovers are the bane of the legal system, one of these being the judges taking summer vacations like the British judges who used to lock their courts in summer to escape the summer heat, inspite of three crore pending cases.
What is more hypocritical is the way in which lawyers (officers of the Court) slavishly bow before the judges on entering the court, monotonously repeat “my lord” over and over again, begin their briefs with “may it please your worship”. Whose worship are we doing—of the judges or of the antediluvian practice the British left behind?
Judges must shun their bloated ego and realize that they are not feudal lords anymore, but public servants of a free India. And advocates, how about beginning the briefs with “With respect to the tenets of natural justice.”?
Yours frankly
RONALD L. REBELLO
Human Rights Activist
Email:
yoursfrankly@rediffmail.com Add: 28 Sunrise (552), Samta Nagar,
Kandivali (East), Mumbai 400 101
Tel: 9869 650 870
