Delhi High Court Designates 70 Lawyers As Senior Advocates
The Delhi High Court has designated 70 lawyers as Senior Advocates after an extensive evaluation process, marking the first such designation in nearly three and a half years. The process involved interviews and a detailed analysis by the court's Permanent Committee.
Delhi High Court Designates 70 Lawyers as Senior Advocates
After a hiatus of nearly three and a half years, the Delhi High Court on Friday designated 70 lawyers as Senior Advocates. The recognition followed an extensive evaluation process conducted by the court's Permanent Committee, which included Chief Justice Manmohan, senior judges Vibhu Bakhru and Yashwant Varma, Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma, and senior advocates Sudhir Nandrajog and Mohit Mathur.
Over 300 lawyers applied for the coveted designation, a mark of distinction awarded by the Supreme Court and high courts to acknowledge legal expertise, court craft, and knowledge. The selection process involved weeks of interviews, culminating in a full court meeting where candidates shortlisted by the committee were analysed in detail.
The exercise was conducted under the Delhi High Court Designation of Senior Advocate Rules, 2018. Notably, the court abolished the earlier requirement for a name to be proposed by three Senior Advocates, a rule that had drawn significant criticism.
The last round of such designations occurred in March 2021, when 55 lawyers were conferred the Senior Advocate title.
Following is the list of Advocates who have been designated as Senior Advocates:
SL. No. | Name of the Advocates | Enrolment Numbers |
1 | Gautam Narayan | D/1392/2001 |
| 2 | Sanjeev Sagar | D/459/1998(R) |
| 3 | Sumeet Verma | D/498/1998(R) |
| 4 | Anupam Srivastava | D/876/1991 |
| 5 | Manu Sharma | D/1974/2003 |
| 6 | Pavan Narang | D/578/1990 |
| 7 | Sanjay Dewan | D/589/1991 |
| 8 | Sonu Bhatnagar | D/729/1993 |
| 9 | Rajdipa Behura | D/12-A/2001 |
| 10 | Pooja Mehra Saigal | D/146/1996(R) |
| 11 | Apoorv Kurup | D/554/2005 |
| 12 | Puneet Taneja | D/1779/2008 |
| 13 | Kunal Tandon | D/897/2003 |
| 14 | Sumit Bansal | D/375/1992 |
| 15 | Samrat Rabinder Nigam | D/53-G/2000 |
| 16 | Anurag Ahluwalia | D/1400/2005 |
| 17 | Tanveer Ahmed Mir | D/684-A/1998 |
| 18 | Jeevesh Nagrath | D/840/2000 |
| 19 | Abhijat | D/1065/1995 |
| 20 | Harish V Shankar | D/473/1998(R) |
| 21 | Kaadambari | D/403-R/1998 |
| 22 | Santosh Kumar Tripathi | D/1882-Ist-B/1999 |
| 23 | Swathi Sukumar | D/1085/2005 |
| 24 | Vibha Mahajan Seth | D/973/1998(R) |
| 25 | Ashim Vachher | D/544/1990 |
| 26 | Amit Chadha | D /1141/2003 |
| 27 | Abhishek Malhotra | D/2681/1999 |
| 28 | Kirtiman Singh | D/1397/2001 |
| 29 | Manik Dogra | D/2288/1999 |
| 30 | Nandita Rao | D/412-R/1998 |
| 31 | Vaibhav Rajgopal Gaggar | D/903/2003 |
| 32 | Sandeep Prabhakar | D/379/1987 |
| 33 | Ashish Mohan | D/563/2005 |
| 34 | Diya Kapur | D/1553/2000 |
| 35 | Manish Sharma | D/835/1994 |
| 36 | Jatan Singh | D/238/1988 |
| 37 | Sumeet Pushkarna | D/1138/1995 |
| 38 | Rashmi Chhabra | D/749/1993 |
| 39 | Sandeep Sharma | D/424/1998 |
| 40 | Sai Deepak J | D/2126/2009 |
| 41 | Ajay Arora | D/385/1989 |
| 42 | Madhav Khurana | D/609/2004 |
| 43 | Manish Kumar Jha | D/3088/1999 |
| 44 | Sanjay Sharawat | D/1056/1994 |
| 45 | Dr. Aseem Chawla | D/2585/2006 |
| 46 | Suryakant Singla | D/246/1978 |
| 47 | Mriganga Dutta | D/548/1997(R) |
| 48 | Gaurav Sarin | D/394/1998(R) |
| 49 | Priya Kumar | D/168/1996(R) |
| 50 | Anil Soni | D/493/1986 |
| 51 | Ravi Prakash | D /884/2003 |
| 52 | Arundhati Katju | D/1089/2005 |
| 53 | Buddy Anumalasetty Ranganadhan | D/137/1996(R) |
| 54 | Ankit Jain | D/891/2004 |
| 55 | Tamali Wad | D/548/1990 |
| 56 | Jitendra Sethi | D/459/1985 |
| 57 | Shyel Trehan | D/873/2000 |
| 58 | Dharmesh Misra | D/318/1987 |
| 59 | Uttam Datt | D/750/1995 |
| 60 | Gyanendra Kumar | D/483/1994 |
| 61 | Avninder Singh | D/735/2006 |
| 62 | Pradeep Kumar Bakshi | D/262/1985 |
| 63 | Jagdeep Sharma | D/126/2000 |
| 64 | Rajeev Saxena | D/6/1984 |
| 65 | Shashank Garg | D/749/2008 |
| 66 | Aditya Narain | D /329 /1983 |
| 67 | Parvinder Chauhan | D/429/1997(R) |
| 68 | Sachit Jolly | D/458/2007 |
| 69 | Asheesh Jain | D/1113/2003 |
| 70 | Pragyan Pradip Sharma | D/40-R/1996 |