Editing Judge (section)

=====England and Wales=====
In the [[Courts of England and Wales]], [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|Supreme Court]] judges are called Justices of the Supreme Court.  Justices of the Supreme Court who do not hold life peerages are now given the courtesy style "Lord" or "Lady".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/pr_1013.pdf |title=Courtesy titles for Justices of the Supreme Court |access-date=2010-12-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207071932/http://supremecourt.uk/docs/pr_1013.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-07 }}</ref>  Justices of the Supreme Court are addressed as "My Lord/Lady" in court.  In the law reports, the Justices of the Supreme Court are usually referred to as "Lord/Lady N", although the Weekly Law Reports appends the post-nominal letters "JSC" (e.g. "Lady Smith JSC"). The President and Deputy President of the Court are afforded the post-nominal letters PSC and DPSC respectively. Only experienced [[barrister]]s or [[solicitor]]s are usually appointed as judges.

Judges of the [[High Court]] and [[Court of Appeal]] are [[Forms of address in the United Kingdom|addressed]] (when sitting in those courts) as "My Lord" or "My Lady" and referred to as "Your Lordship" or "Your Ladyship".

Judges of the Court of Appeal, also called [[Lords Justice of Appeal]], are referred to as "Lord Justice N" or "Lady Justice N".  In legal writing, Lords Justices of Appeal are afforded the post nominal letters "LJ": for example, Smith LJ.

When a [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|Justice of the High Court]] who is not present is being referred to they are [[Mr Justice|described]] as "Mr./Mrs./Ms. Justice ''N.''"  In legal writing, the post-nominal letter "J" is used to denote a Justice (male or female) of the High Court; for example, a Justice Smith is referred to as Smith J.<ref name="Garner_Page_489">{{cite book |last1=Garner |first1=Bryan A. |authorlink1=Bryan A. Garner |title=Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780195384208 |page=489 |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1m1bI5vCooC&pg=PA489 |access-date=October 22, 2023}}</ref> Unlike American English, no comma is used to offset the letter J from the Justice's name.<ref name="Garner_Page_489" /> The full stop after the preceding examples terminates the sentence, not the abbreviation, and the abbreviation can be used mid-sentence in prose in formal legal writing.<ref name="Garner_Page_489" />  [[Master (judiciary)|Masters]] of the [[EWHC|High Court]] are addressed as "Master". [[Insolvency and Companies Court]] judges in the High Court are addressed as "Judge".

[[Circuit judge (UK)|Circuit judges]] and [[Recorder (judge)|recorders]] are addressed as "Your Honour". Circuit judges are referred to as "His/Her Honour Judge N".  In writing, this title is occasionally abbreviated as "HHJ" or "HH Judge N", but not in legal writing. [[District judge (magistrates courts)|District judges]] and [[tribunal]] judges are addressed as "Sir/Madam".

[[Magistrate (England and Wales)|Magistrates]] are usually still addressed as "[[Your Worship]]" in much of England. Magistrates are also addressed as "Sir/Madam".