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Kerala High Court:<\/strong> In an intra court appeal filed by an advocate, P.B. Sahasranaman, against the judgment of a Single Judge Bench dismissing the appellant\u2019s writ petition to consider the matter of his designation as senior counsel in the High Court,\u00a0 the appeal was dismissed by a Division Bench comprising of Navaniti Prasad Sigh, C.J. and Raja Vijayaraghavan V., J.<\/p>\n

After a review petition and a writ petition before the Supreme Court to consider the rejection of him being designated as a senior counsel failed, the appellant filed a writ petition before the Kerala High Court challenging the \u201cRules Regarding Designation as Senior Advocates, 2000\u201d as being ultra vires the powers granted to the High Court by the Advocates Act of 1961. Another contention was that Rule 6 of the aforementioned Rules, which stated that at least two-thirds of the Judges present at a meeting needed to support an application for designation as senior counsel, should be read as \u201ctwo-thirds of the Judges present and voting\u201d.<\/p>\n

Both the contentions were rejected by the High Court and the writ became only of academic interest since the ballot papers had been destroyed and there was no question of recounting. A question arose if an Advocate could consider it to be a matter of right to be designated as a senior advocate. The court answered it in negative and declared that it is a distinction conferred based upon the opinion of the Court considering \u201cability, standing at the Bar or special knowledge or experience in law\u201d and that \u201cit is a subjective decision based on objective consideration\u201d.<\/p>\n

Also, the Court stated that different High Courts have framed different rules with the aid of the Advocates Act and though the practice of \u201cJudges present and voting\u201d was prevalent, the usage of \u201cJudges present\u201d was held to be a conscious departure in the Kerala High Court Rules of 2000. [Adv. P.B. Sahasranaman v. Kerala High Court, Writ Appeal No. 1500 of 2017, dated 10.08.2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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