The Kerala High Court has suo motu conferred Senior Advocate designation to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader PS Sreedharan Pillai.

Pillai is a doyen at the bar and an expert in criminal law matters.

Pillai has previously served as the State President of the BJP and as the Governor in Mizoram and Goa.

In a full court meeting held on November 11, the High Court conferred him Senior Advocate designation.

Seventeen other lawyers were also conferred Senior Advocate designation at this meeting. However, those lawyers had submitted applications to be considered for conferment of the title.

Pillai was conferred the gown by the Court on its own under Rule 3(2) of the High Court of Kerala (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2026.

The rule empowers the full court to confer the designation by consensus to any advocate who is in its opinion, "a person of exceptional quality, eminence and has special expertise in any field of law."

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