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New Delhi:The Supreme Courts latest move to designate 39 lawyers as senior advocates has sparked a controversy, with a section of the Bar taking exception to a few names being left out...
Speaking to ThePrint, however, sources in the Supreme Court denied the charges of deserving candidates being ignored, claiming the process followed to designate seniors was in strict compliance with top court judgments that had developed an evaluation-based system to grant the status...
On 14 August, the top court registry issued the list of newly-designated senior advocates..
The list of new senior lawyers was released after the full court, comprising all judges of the top court, met to discuss the names that were earlier cleared by a five-member panel led by Chief Justice of India D. Y..
This condition was put because nowadays you have many lawyers representing litigants in court, but only one of them argues the matter, the source further explained, adding that lawyers who did not make it to the interviewee list were those who could not meet this condition on judgments.. Further, the academic work claimed by lawyers was evaluated by a separate three-member committee that scrutinised papers, articles or teaching assignments submitted by the applicants..
