Madras HC Designates 16 Lawyers As Senior Advocates
LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK
10 Feb 2017 2:57 PM GMT
Madras High Court has on Friday designated 16 lawyers as Senior Advocates. There are two women lawyers in the listHere is the full list: Thilakavathi K Kumarasamy Haja Nazirudeen Murugamanickam D Ravi Kumar Paul Ravindran Manishankar T.S Murthi Ayyadurai Ramakrishnan Virarahavan Sankaranarayanan Omprakash R Raman Subbiah Meenakshi Sundaram KrishnaveniAs per Section 16 of the Advocates Act...
Madras High Court has on Friday designated 16 lawyers as Senior Advocates. There are two women lawyers in the list
Here is the full list:
- Thilakavathi
- K Kumarasamy
- Haja Nazirudeen
- Murugamanickam
- D Ravi Kumar Paul
- Ravindran
- Manishankar
- T.S Murthi
- Ayyadurai
- Ramakrishnan Virarahavan
- Sankaranarayanan
- Omprakash
- R Raman
- Subbiah
- Meenakshi Sundaram
- Krishnaveni
As per Section 16 of the Advocates Act there shall be two classes of advocates, namely, senior advocates and other advocates. An advocate may, with his consent, be designated as senior advocate if the Supreme Court or a High Court is of opinion that by virtue of his ability, standing at the Bar or special knowledge or experience in law, he is deserving of such distinction.
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