Supreme Court Designates 18 Lawyers and 7 Retired HC CJs/Judges as Senior Advocates
(Judicial Quest News Network)
The Supreme Court has designated 7 retired HC CJs and Judges from various courts 18 Lawyers on-records/as senior Advocates.
The decision has been taken by the Chief Justice of India and judges of the Supreme Court in the full court meeting held on December 8, 2021.
A letter has been addressed regarding the same by the Secretary of the Committee for Department of Senior Advcoates to the registrar Generals of All High Courts, Secretary Bar Council of India and Secretaries of all State Bar Councils.
The following are the AoRs/Advocates who have been conferred the gown
- Ravi Prakash Mehrotra
- S. Narasimha Bhatt
- Dr.Krishnan Singh Chauhan
- Vishwajit Singh
- Devrndra N Guburdhun
- Vijay Panjwani
- Pradeep Kumar Dey
- Annam DN Rao
- Rachna Srivastava
- Anil Kumar Sangal
- Rajiv Nanda
- Arunabha Chaudhury
- Ravindra Kumar
- Vijay Kumar
- Manoj Goel
- Yadavilli Prabhakar Rao
- G.Umapathy
- P.Niroop
The retired High Court Chief Justices/Judges Designated as Senior are:
- Dr.JN Bhatt (Gujarat/Patna)
- Surender Kumar (Allahabad)
- SK Gangele (Madhya Pradesh)
- Vinod Prasad (Allahabad/Orissa)
- L. Narsimha Reddy (Andhra Pradesh/Patna)
- AIS Cheema (Bombay)
- Noushad Ali (Andhra Pradesh)
