J. Sai Deepak Among 71 Advocates Designated Senior Advocate By Delhi High Court, Supreme Court Conferrs Designation On Newly Appointed ASG
The Delhi High Court has conferred Senior Advocate designation to 71 Advocates, including engineer turned Advocate and author J. Sai Deepak.
In a separate but related development, the Full Court of the Supreme Court designated Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Raghavendra P. Shankar as Senior Advocate with effect from November 29, 2024. He was notified as an ASG on September 9 by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions (Department of Personnel & Training).
The Permanent Committee that made the selection comprised of the Chief Justice Manmohan, Justice Vibhu Bakhru, Justice Yashwant Varma, Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma and Senior Advocates Sudhir Nandrajog and Mohit Mathur.
The full list of the Advocates designated as Senior Advocates by the Delhi High Court is as follows:
The High Court of Delhi Designation of Senior Advocate Rules, 2024 state that all matters relating to the designation of Senior Advocates by the High Court is to be dealt with by a Permanent Committee to be known as the 'Committee for Designation of Senior Advocates'. The Committee, which is required to meet once every calendar year, comprises of the following members:-
1. The Chief Justice of the High Court as the chairperson of the Permanent Committee
2. Two Senior most Judges of the High Court as members
3. Additional Solicitor General (High Court of Delhi) as a Member
4. One member nominated by the Administrative Committee of the High Court out of the names of three Senior Advocates given by the Government ofNCT of Delhi - Member
5. One member of the Bar nominated by the Administrative Committee of the High Court
Eligibility criteria
The rules prescribe that no person shall be eligible for being designated as Senior Advocate unless:
(i) they have practiced as an Advocate at the Bar for not less than 10 years;
(ii) are enrolled with the Bar Council constituted under the Advocates Act, 1961;
(iii) have been mainly practicing in the High Court and the Courts Subordinate to it;
(iv) have appeared and argued cases or provided legal services pro-bono; and
(v) have attained the age of 40 years, unless the age limit is relaxed by the Permanent Committee.