Madras High Court Confers 'Senior' Designation On 62 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 Rangarajan

These 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 misplaced

The 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