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Supreme Court designates 39 lawyers as senior advocatesProminent lawyers conferred the senior gown included Abhimanyu Bhandari, Dr Anindita Pujari, Aniruddha Anant Joshi, Aparna Bhat TG, Ashok Panigrahi, Davinder Pal Singh, B Balaji, Bansuri Swaraj, Nalin Kohli, Gaurav Sharma, Indra Sawhney.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday designated 39 lawyers as senior advocates.

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Out of these 39 advocates, 10 are women. The decision was taken by the top court at a full court meeting held on Wednesday.

Prominent lawyers conferred the senior gown included Abhimanyu Bhandari, Dr Anindita Pujari, Aniruddha Anant Joshi, Aparna Bhat TG, Ashok Panigrahi, Davinder Pal Singh, B Balaji, Bansuri Swaraj, Nalin Kohli, Gaurav Sharma, Indra Sawhney.

The others who were also designated as seniors are: Kavita Jha, Kawaljit Kochar, Mahesh Chandra Dhingra, Manish Goswami, Manisha T Karia, MR Shamshad, Dr Monika Gusain, Nachiketa Sudhakar Joshi, Ngangom Junior, Parameshwar K, Prasenjit Keswani, Puneet Jain, Purvish Jitendra Malkan, R. Nedumaran, Rahul Kaushik, Rishi Malhotra, Romy Chacko, Ruchi Kohli, Rudreshwar Singh, Seshadri Sekhar Ray, Shadan Farasat, Shanthkumar V Mahale, Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Shashi Kiran, Shekara Gowda (Shekhar G Devasa), Uday Bhaskar Dube, Vishnu Mehra, Yashraj Singh Deora.

In January, this year, the Supreme Court had designated as many as 56 advocates as senior advocates.

According to 2023 "Guidelines for Designation of Senior Advocates by the Supreme Court of India", all matters relating to the designation would be dealt with by a permanent committee to be known as the "Committee for Designation of Senior Advocates'' with Chief Justice of India as it Chairperson, two senior-most judges of the Supreme Court of India, Attorney General for India and others.

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(Published 14 August 2024, 22:34 IST)