The Delhi High Court elevates 70 lawyers as Senior Advocates.
The interview of over 300 lawyers who had applied for the designation was taken by the Delhi High Court
The lawyers, who have been conferred the gown, include:
- Gautam Narayan
- Sanjeev Sagar
- Sumeet Verma
- Anupam Srivastava
- Manu Sharma
- Pavan Narang
- Sanjay Dewan
- Sonu Bhatnagar
- Rajdipa Behura
- Pooja Mehra Saigal
- Apoorv Kurup
- Puneet Taneja
- Kunal Tandon
- Sumit Bansal
- Samrat Rabinder Nigam
- Anuraag Ahluwalia
- Tanveer Ahmed Mir
- Jeevesh Nagrath
- Abhijat
- Harish V Shankar
- Kaadambari
- Santosh Tripathi
- Swati Sukumar
- Vibha Mahajan Seth
- Ashim Vachher
- Amit Chadha
- Abhishek Malhotra
- Kirtiman Singh
- Manik Dogra
- Nandita Rao
- Vaibhav Rajgopal Gaggar
- Sandip Prabhakar
- Ashish Mohan
- Diya Kapur
- Manish Sharma
- Jatan Singh
- Sumeet Pushkarna
- Rashmi Chabra
- Sandeep Sharma
- Sai Deepak J
- Ajay Arora
- Madhav Khurana
- Manish Kumar Jha
- Sanjay Sharawat
- Aseem Chawla
- Surya Kant Singla
- Mriganga Dutta
- Gaurav Sarin
- Priya Kumar
- Anil Soni
- Ravi Prakash
- Arundhati Katju
- Buddy Anumalasetti Ranganadhan
- Ankit Jain
- Tamali Wad
- Jitendra Sethi
- Shyel Trehan
- Dharmesh Misra
- Uttam Datt
- Gyanendra Kumar
- Avininder Singh
- Pradeep Kumar Bakshi
- Jagdeep Sharma
- Rajiv Saxena
- Shashank Garg
- Aditya Narain
- Parvinder Chauhan
- Sachit Jolly
- Asheesh Jain
- Pragyan Pradip Sharma.
This is first time after since March 2021 that the lawyers have been conferred the senior gown. In 2021, 55 lawyers had been appointed as Senior Advocates.
The Senior Advocate designation rules were amended in March 2024.
As per the new rules under the High Court of Delhi Designation of Senior Advocate Rules, 2024, all matters related to designation of Senior Advocates are dealt with by a Permanent Committee.
The Committee consists of the Chief Justice and two senior-most judges of the High Court, the Additional Solicitor General, a Senior Advocate nominated by the Administrative Committee from among three lawyers suggested by the Delhi government, and a nominated member of the Bar Association.
A list of candidates is prepared by the Secretariat of the Permanent Committee, compiling their data and past records. Apart from the interview component, the Permanent Committee assesses the candidates on several factors such as number of years of practice, pro bono work, publications, etc.
The post Delhi High Court elevates 70 lawyers as Senior Advocates appeared first on India Legal.