Uganda judges push back against lawyers’ bid to scrap ‘colonial titles’
In the directive, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) said such "feudal and colonial honorifics" elevate judicial officers above citizens, "who are in reality their employers".
Across Africa, lawyers and other legal practitioners have long debated whether colonial-era courtroom traditions, including wigs and robes, should be abandoned as part of broader efforts to reform judicial systems.
Uganda's judiciary has pushed back against a directive by the country's lawyers' association instructing its members to stop addressing judges as "My Lord" or "My Lady" and to abandon the longstanding practice of bowing before them.
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