Senior Advocate Indira Jaising has addressed a letter to the Secretary General of the Supreme Court regarding the recent designation of 56 advocates as Senior Advocates..As per the letter, while numerous designations made by the Court on January 19, 2024 promote access to justice and generate a healthy atmosphere at the bar, some candidates feel unjustifiably excluded."The large number of persons designated does promote access to justice and I have no doubt has also generated a healthy atmosphere at the Bar. At the same time, there is a feeling among some of the Advocates who were called for the interview that they have been unjustifiably left out of being designated," the letter said..It further highlighted that some who had more than 25 years of practice and had more than 50 reported cases as leading counsel were not designated."This is perhaps for the reason that 25 marks are allotted to the interview and yet the interview itself was collective and for a few minutes only," she said..Accordingly, to avoid a sense of discontent at the bar and to instill confidence in the process, Jaising has proposed that the designating authority consider reviewing the decisions and provide a fresh opportunity for interviews to qualified advocates who were initially overlooked.Jaising has also proposed disclosing the marks obtained by individual candidates as is done in some High Courts, for the purpose of transparency.
Senior Advocate Indira Jaising has addressed a letter to the Secretary General of the Supreme Court regarding the recent designation of 56 advocates as Senior Advocates..As per the letter, while numerous designations made by the Court on January 19, 2024 promote access to justice and generate a healthy atmosphere at the bar, some candidates feel unjustifiably excluded."The large number of persons designated does promote access to justice and I have no doubt has also generated a healthy atmosphere at the Bar. At the same time, there is a feeling among some of the Advocates who were called for the interview that they have been unjustifiably left out of being designated," the letter said..It further highlighted that some who had more than 25 years of practice and had more than 50 reported cases as leading counsel were not designated."This is perhaps for the reason that 25 marks are allotted to the interview and yet the interview itself was collective and for a few minutes only," she said..Accordingly, to avoid a sense of discontent at the bar and to instill confidence in the process, Jaising has proposed that the designating authority consider reviewing the decisions and provide a fresh opportunity for interviews to qualified advocates who were initially overlooked.Jaising has also proposed disclosing the marks obtained by individual candidates as is done in some High Courts, for the purpose of transparency.
