Yeshwanth Shenoy elected President of Kerala High Court Advocates' Association

Advocate Yeshwanth Shenoy has been elected the President of the Kerala High Court Advocates' Association (KHCAA). .Shenoy secured 1,147 votes inching out the closest candidate advocate KB Pradeep by 84 votes.Shenoy had captured headlines the past year after he filed petitions concerning a sitting judge. A contempt of court case initiated against him at around the same time is also pending before the High Court..The following is the full list of the new electees:.PresidentYeshwanth ShenoyVice PresidentUnni KKVice President (Lady)Gisa Susan ThomasSecretaryAnoop V NairTreasurerVarun C VijayExecutive CommitteeJayakrishnan M (Vazhoor)Jayakrishnan UVarghese SabuMaya M.Mahesh Bhanu S.The post of KHCAA President saw some controversy in 2023. Advocate Saiby Jose Kidangoor had been elected as President in December 2022. However, he resigned from the post in February after an FIR was registered against him alleging that he had been fleecing clients under the pretext of using it to bribe judges of the High Court. For 9 months, advocate S Biju served as the acting president of KHCAA. In November 2023, the High Court was informed that the State would be dropping the charges against him. Following this, he was unanimously reinstated as President. .New President Shenoy was also in the news albeit for different reasons. He filed a petition alleging that only a very limited number of cases are listed each day before one of the sitting judges of the High Court, Justice Mary Joseph. He sought a direction to the Registrar General of High Court to have a standard criterion for listing matters before various courts in accordance with the directions of the Chief Justice. The petition and the appeal against it were dismissed. A contempt of court case was initiated against him by the High Court at around the same time and is still pending. Another petition filed by Shenoy is also pending before the High Court. The plea has challenged a show cause notice issued to him by the Bar Council of Kerala (BCK) after Justice Joseph wrote to the BCK alleging that Shenoy had misbehaved in her court. In this plea, Shenoy has alleged that documents are being leaked from the High Court Registry to news agencies.