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....
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 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