Forms of address in Supreme Court of Appeal – sign of the times?

MODE OF ADDRESS

With effect from the court term beginning on 2 May 2007 the mode of address to the Bench in proceedings before this Court will no longer, in English, employ the expressions ‘My Lord”, ‘My Lady’, ‘Your Lordship(s)’ or ‘Your Ladyship(s)’.
Instead, the Bench will be addressed through the presiding Judge and be referred to as ‘the Court’. Where an individual member of the Bench is referred to this should be by using the Judge’s surname preceded by the word ‘Justice’. The current mode of address used in Afrikaans will continue to apply.

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