Senior Advocate KK Venugopal will continue as Attorney General for India for three more months. .Sources told Bar & Bench that Venugopal, whose tenure is ending tomorrow, will be given an extension. Venugopal was appointed as the Attorney General on July 1, 2017 for a three-year term which was subsequently extended twice for a year each..Venugopal has been a practicing lawyer for nearly six decades. He was Additional Solicitor General once during the tenure of Morarji Desai government. Widely regarded as an expert in Constitutional Law, Venugopal shifted base to Delhi from Chennai, 25 years after joining the Bar in Madras..By his own admission, Venugopal joined the legal field by sheer accident as he could not complete his BSc in Physics..He enrolled at the Bar in January 1954 in the then Mysore High Court and thereafter in the Madras High Court, and started his practice under his father, MK Nambiar. He initially practiced in litigation relating to the grant of motor vehicle permits, inter-State permits and variation of routes..He began appearing in the Supreme Court in the 1960s, when the Advocates Act was enacted. The Act provided for a unified bar throughout the country. By enrolling in one High Court, a lawyer would be entitled to practice in all High Courts in India as well as in the Supreme Court of India..He grew in eminence as a Constitutional Law Expert and was designated Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in 1972..Read our full interview with KK Venugopal here..[Read Notification]
Senior Advocate KK Venugopal will continue as Attorney General for India for three more months. .Sources told Bar & Bench that Venugopal, whose tenure is ending tomorrow, will be given an extension. Venugopal was appointed as the Attorney General on July 1, 2017 for a three-year term which was subsequently extended twice for a year each..Venugopal has been a practicing lawyer for nearly six decades. He was Additional Solicitor General once during the tenure of Morarji Desai government. Widely regarded as an expert in Constitutional Law, Venugopal shifted base to Delhi from Chennai, 25 years after joining the Bar in Madras..By his own admission, Venugopal joined the legal field by sheer accident as he could not complete his BSc in Physics..He enrolled at the Bar in January 1954 in the then Mysore High Court and thereafter in the Madras High Court, and started his practice under his father, MK Nambiar. He initially practiced in litigation relating to the grant of motor vehicle permits, inter-State permits and variation of routes..He began appearing in the Supreme Court in the 1960s, when the Advocates Act was enacted. The Act provided for a unified bar throughout the country. By enrolling in one High Court, a lawyer would be entitled to practice in all High Courts in India as well as in the Supreme Court of India..He grew in eminence as a Constitutional Law Expert and was designated Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in 1972..Read our full interview with KK Venugopal here..[Read Notification]
