Madras High Court Confers 'Senior' Designation On 62 Advocates

The Madras High Court today designated of a total of 62 lawyers as Senior Advocates. In a notification issued by Registrar General, Madras High Court, the following advocates have been designated as Seniors in the exercise of the court's powers under Section 16 (2) of the Advocates' Act, 1961. 1. N. Chandrasekaran 2. A. V. Somasundaram 3. N. Jothi 4. S. Natarajan 4. T. S. R. Venkatramana 5. S. Vijayakumar 6. K. Ravi 7. V. S. Jayakumar 8. K. R. Tamizh Mani 9. C. T. Mohan 11. K. M. Ramesh 12. K. Balasundaram 13. P. L. Narayanan 14. Krishna Srinivasan 15. K. Srinivasan 16. Jayesh B. Dolia 17. M. V. Venkataseshan 18. N. Ananthapadmanabhan 19. R. Rajarathinam 20. V. Raghavachari 21. V. P. Sengottuvel 22. T. Pramod Kumar Chopda 23. M. Aravind Subramanyam 24. G. Karthikeyan 25. P. V. S. Giridhar 26. K. Ravi Anantha Padmanaban 27. R. Srinivas 28. K. S. Viswanathan 29. C. Arul Vadivel @ Sekar 30. S. Ravi 31. T. Lajapathiroy 32. Ravi Shanmugam 33. P. Kumaresan 34. N. Muralikumaran 35. AL. Ganthimathi 36. P. M. Subramaniam 37. M. Subashbabu 38. R. Baskaran 39. Dakshayani Reddy 40. T. Mohan 41. K. K. Senthilvelan 42. G. Sankaran 43. J. Sivanandaraai 44. S. R. Rajagopal 45. N. A. Nissar Ahmed 46. A. Abdul Hameed 47. A. K. Sriram 48. R. Parthasarathy 49. Abdul Saleem 50. Srinath Sridevan 51. P. Valliappan 52. K. P. S. Palanivel Rajan S.Mukunth 53. S. Mukunth 54. J. Ravindran 55. P. V. Balasubramaniam 56. B. Saravanan 57. T. Gowthaman 58. R. Gandhi 59. R. John Sathyan 60. Abudu Kumar Rajaratnam 61. Hasan Mohamed Jinnah 62. M. Sricharan RangarajanThese advocates were designated as senior advocates days after the High Court dismissed a petition seeking reservation for women in the designation of Senior Advocate. The court observed that conferring the status of Senior Advocate on an Advocate is a privilege and not a post.Conferring the status of Senior Advocate on a Advocate qua Section 16 of 'The Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961)' is clearly a privilege and not a post. Therefore, any prayer for reservation is misplacedThe bench of Justice M Sundar and Justice N Satish Kumar was hearing a plea by S Lawrence Vimalraj seeking equal numbers or 30% reservation for women advocates in the conferment of designation of Senior Advocates.Dismissing the petition, the court said that the petitioner does not have any locus standi to go forward with the petition as he is neither an applicant nor an aggrieved person whose rights have been affected.Read more about the court's observations here: Senior Advocate Designation An Honour And Privilege, Cannot Be Based On Reservation: Madras High Court Rejects Plea Seeking Quota For Women Lawyers

Madras High Court Confers 'Senior' Designation On 62 Advocates

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