The Delhi High Court has today designated Advocates Dayan Krishnan, Amit Sibal and Anoop Bhambhani as Senior Advocates..Krishnan is a graduate of National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He initially worked with Santosh Hegde between 1993 and 1999 before Hegde was elevated to the Supreme Court. Krishnan, a noted criminal lawyer, played a vital role in the conviction of the Delhi Gang rape accused as the special public prosecutor..Krishnan in a an exclusive interview with Bar & Bench had said, “Well, I can say I am proud of the fact I am self-made.”.On his designation, Krishnan said, “I am overwhelmed that High Court voted for me in such large number. For me it is a great honour by the Delhi High Court. I hope I live up to the honour that the high court has bestowed”..Krishnan is the second NLSIU alum to be designated Senior Advocate after Akshay Bhan, who is a 1998 graduate and has been recently designated a Senior Advocate by the Punjab & Haryana High Court..Sibal, who is the son of the Minister of Law and Justice Kapil Sibal said, “It is a wonderful platform to give back to the profession and to society.”.Sibal did his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and law from Cambridge University. He later did a Masters in Law from Harvard University. He initially worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and Hong Kong after which he moved back to India in 2002. Since then he has been practicing independently..On his decision to move back to India and litigate, Sibal said, “I thought this would be much more exciting than continuing to practice corporate law because it’s a place where young people get much more opportunities and a lot more varity in the practice of law here.”.“You can have a chance to play in your own way a role in helping develop the law here more so you would in corporate area abroad where the law is fairly crystallised for some decades now with very little change and here it is changing rapidly”, added Sibal..Bhambhani, who is a graduate of St. Stephens College and did his law from Delhi University said, “It’s a beginning of new innings. I hope to do a justice to it.” His areas of practice include media law more specifically constitutional aspect of media law. He has been on the panel of the Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee..The Delhi High Court had recently designated Pratibha Singh, Intellectual Property (IP) lawyer and Managing Partner of Singh & Singh, as a Senior Advocate..Follow Bar and Bench channel on WhatsAppDownload the Bar and Bench Mobile app for instant access to the latest legal news.
