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Practice and procedure--- ---Practice of using honorifics or prefixes such as ‘honourable/ hon’ble’ and ‘learned’ while referring to the High Courts or Supreme Court---Propriety---Supreme Court deprecated such practice and observed that the Constitution does not use any prefix or honorific before the High Courts and the Supreme Court nor uses the terms ‘August’ or ‘Apex’ for the Supreme Court; that use of such honorifics or prefixes was linguistically inappropriate, and that for advocates and judges the preference should be to use the language of the Constitution. A practice seems to have developed among lawyers and judges of using the honorific honourable/hon’ble and learned when referring to the Supreme Court and the High Courts. At times, the Supreme Court is also referred to as ‘August Court’ or ‘Apex Court’. However, such honorifics or prefixes are not used with other institutions such as Parliament, Senate, National Assembly or the provincial assemblies, which naturally leads one to question the distinction. Usage of the honorific ‘honourable’ with inanimate institutions, like courts, is linguistically inappropriate. The Constitution refers to the Supreme Court as the ‘Supreme Court’ and to the High Courts as ‘High Courts’. The Constitution also does not use any prefix or…

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