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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicSenior advocates

Topic: senior advocates

With no PoSH, is Advocates Act an adequate substitute for legal fraternity? What lawyers have to say

Bombay High Court has ruled that women lawyers cannot invoke Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act against male colleagues.

The summer vacation conundrum: How SC, advocates view ‘partial court working days’

The top court has often frowned upon senior advocates appearing before it amid the vacation, while the lawyers are divided on the matter of taking a break.

Gurugram Bar cracks down on courtroom impersonators with a ‘black & white’ ban

Resolution states that to preserve decorum, only enrolled advocates & bona fide law interns shall be allowed professional dress code in court premises. Violators face Rs 5,000 fine.

What was the points-based system for designating senior advocates & why SC scrapped it

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has scrapped the points-based system of designating senior advocates and issued a new set of guidelines since the existing process was...

SC wants a relook at its own 2017 judgement on process of designating senior advocates

2017 order which created new procedure to designate lawyers as seniors was delivered on PIL by senior advocate Indira Jaising who had argued for revising guidelines for more transparency.

‘SC can’t be instrument of fraud.’ CBI told to probe case implicating Nitish Katara murder witness

SC frowned at lawyers involved in case, said matter assumes serious concern when advocates, who appear as officers of court, actively participate in ‘ill-motivated litigations’.

Take action against lawyers advertising, seeking work via online portals — BCI to state bar councils

Disciplinary action may include suspension or removal from roll of advocates. BCI has also issued cease-and-desist notices to online service providers, asking for removal of 'illegal ads'.

SC prefers to hear senior advocates, but it’s more about ‘face value’ than merit, says new book

Book by professors from NLSIU, Seattle University School of Law & University of Chicago Law School suggests power of senior advocates 'appears greatest' at initial hearing stage.

CJI’s no to senior advocates mentioning cases not a first. Listing system real issue, say lawyers

While hearing Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Kapil Sibal mentioning matters, he said he had been receiving concerns from junior lawyers, requesting to end the practice.

Lawyers waiting for years, but newest senior advocates are retired judges

Only the Supreme Court and high courts can designate advocates or former high court judges as senior advocates.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.