{"id":340787,"date":"2025-02-07T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=340787"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T11:15:10","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-plea-against-senior-advocates-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/02\/07\/supreme-court-dismisses-plea-against-senior-advocates-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court dismisses plea against Delhi High Court\u2019s Senior Advocates designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Supreme Court:<\/span> The Division Bench of BR Gavai and K. Vinod Chandran, J. dismissed the plea against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/12\/02\/delhi-high-court-designates-70-senior-advocates\/\" target=\"_blank\">the conferment of Senior designation to 70 advocates by Delhi High Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Bench remarked that lawyers do not get preferential treatment in the Supreme Court for having a senior gown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Advocate challenging the said designation, argued that the classification of lawyers into senior advocates and others was violative of the equality enshrined under the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Mathews J. Nedumpara v. Full Court of The Judges of The High Court of Delhi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/8xFGRlP9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 SCC OnLine SC 274<\/a>, decided on: 07-02-2025<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Source: Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t see that anybody gets better treatment in this Court because he has a different gown,&#8221; the Bench 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