Editing Lord (section)

===Judiciary===
{{See also|Judiciary of the United Kingdom}}
[[File:Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham by Charles Robert Leslie cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham]], a [[Lord Chancellor]] of the United Kingdom]]
Until the creation of the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]] (2009), certain [[judge]]s sat in the House of Lords by virtue of holding life peerages. Most of them (those who were members of the [[Appellate Committee of the House of Lords|Appellate Committee]]<!-- appointment to which was on a statutory basis from 1876, and under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act not synonymous with being a judge who was a peer, e.g. 70+ year olds were barred but could be Lords Justice of Appeal -->) were known collectively as the [[Lord of Appeal in Ordinary|Law Lords]]. All judges, including former Law Lords, lost the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, despite retaining their life peerages, upon creation of the Supreme Court. The appellation "Lord", though not the style, is also used to refer to some judges in certain [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] legal systems, who are not peers. Some such judges, for instance judges of the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales]], are called "Lord Justice". Other Commonwealth judges, for example judges of Canadian provincial supreme courts, are known only as Justices but are addressed with deference in court as 'My Lord', 'My Lady', 'Your Lordship' or 'Your Ladyship'.

Examples of judges who use the appellation "lord" include:
* Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom not holding peerages, who are addressed as if they were life peers by [[Warrant (law)|Royal Warrant]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/pr_1013.pdf|title=Press Notice: Courtesy titles for Justices of the Supreme Court|date=13 December 2010|website=www.supremecourt.uk|publisher=The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref> Wives of male justices who are not peers are addressed as if they were wives of peers. These forms of address are applicable both in court and in social contexts.
* Judges of the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales]], known as 'Lords Justices of Appeal'.
* Judges of the Scottish [[Court of Session]], known as 'Lords of Council and Session'.
* Justices of the Canadian provincial Supreme Courts, addressed in Court as "My Lord" or "My Lady" and referred to in legal literature as "Lordships" or "Ladyships".
* Judges of the [[Supreme Court of India]] and the [[High Courts of India]], who are addressed as "My Lord" and "Your Lordship" in court. The [[Bar Council of India]] called upon lawyers to give up this practice of addressing judges as 'lords' in 2006 but in practice, this was ignored.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/supreme-court-judge-stop-saying-my-lord-will-give-you-half-my-salary-4539579 | title="Stop Saying My Lord, Will Give You Half My Salary": Supreme Court Judge }}</ref>