Punjab And Haryana High Court Confers 'Senior Designation' On 19 Advocates

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday designated 19 lawyers (including 2 women advocates) as Senior Advocates. The decision was taken at a full-court meeting held on Wednesday.

In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 16(2) of the Advocates Act 1961, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh designated the following Advocates as Senior Advocates

1. Jai Vir Yadav
2. Baljit Kaur Mann
3. Pawan Kumar Mutneja
4. Rajvinder Singh Bains
5. Baltej Singh
6. Gursharan Kaur
7. Tribhuvan Dahiya
8. Gurinder Singh Attariwala
9. Rakesh Nehra
10. Sumeet Goel
11. Vinod Sharma (Bhardwaj)
12. Amit Jain
13. Naresh Singh Shekhawat
14. Pankaj Jain
15. Jagmohan Bansal
16. Harpreet Singh Brar
17. Aashish Chopra
18. Amit Jhanji
19. Gaurav Chopra

The aforesaid Senior Advocates have been designated as senior subject to the condition that they would conduct 10 Free Legal Aid cases pro bono every year, read the notification issued by the High Court.

As reported by The Tribune, a committee set up by the Punjab and Haryana High Court had cleared the names of 27 advocates for designating them as seniors, and in all, 113 advocates had applied for the same. After getting scanned by the "permanent committee for designation as senior advocates", 27 names were placed before the full-court meeting, and out of 27 names, 19 names got cleared.

The last list was cleared around 7 years back and so far, the High Court has designated over 200 advocates as seniors advocates.

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