MS. INDIRA JAISING versus SUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THROUGH SECRETARY GENERAL

Citation: [2023] 5 S.C.R. 434 · Decided: 12-05-2023 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: SANJAY KISHAN KAUL · Disposal: Directions issued

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MS. INDIRA JAISING
v.
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THROUGH SECRETARY
GENERAL
(M.A. Nos. 709/2022, 1502/2020)
(IA Nos.58694/2022, 74393/2020, 75687/2021)
In
(Writ Petition (C) No. 454 of 2015)
MAY 12, 2023
[SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH
AND ARAVIND KUMAR, JJ.]
Advocates Act, 1961: s. 16 – Designation of Senior Advocates
– Criteria for – Guidelines laid down in *Indira Jaising v. Supreme
Court of India’s case, to bring in greater transparency and objectivity
in the designation process of Senior Advocates – 2017 Judgment
given effect by the Supreme Court Guidelines to Regulate
Conferment of Designation of Senior Advocates, 2018 – Plea that
the guidelines enumerated not exhaustive and require
reconsideration by suitable additions/deletions – Held: Guidelines
for designation of Senior Advocates modified as regards, voting by
secret ballot, cut-off marks, the points assigned for publications,
criteria on account of reported and unreported judgments, pro bono
work, and the domain expertise of an applicant under various
branches of law, the personal interview and other aspects – Supreme
Court Guidelines to Regulate Conferment of Designation of Senior
Advocates, 2018.
*Indira Jaising v. Supreme Court of India through
Secretary General and Others, (2017) 9 SCC 766 :
[2017] 10 SCR 478 – relied on.
Case Law Reference
[2017] 10 SCR 478
relied on
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CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: M.A. Nos. 709/2022, 1502/
2020; IA Nos. 58694/2022, 74393/2020, 75687/2021 in Writ Petition (C)
No. 454 OF 2015.
(UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA)
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Ms. Indira Jaising, Mohan V. Katarki, Jaideep Gupta, Aruneshwar
Gupta, Aman Lekhi, Sr. Advs., Ms. Anindita Pujari, Rohin Bhatt, Paras
Nath, Siddhartha Srivastava, Abineet Arvind, Abhineet Arvind, Maitreya
Saha, Ms. Radika Mohapatra, Rauf Rahim, Ali Asghar Rahim, J. P.
Singh, Ms. Tanya Sharma, Ms. Bharti Tyagi, Rajiv Kataria for M/s.
Delhi Law Chambers, Rajat Sehgal, Ms. Nina R. Nariman, Malak Manish
Bhatt, Rajat Bector, Ms. Geetika Kapur, Milind Kumar,A.
Lakshminarayanan, Vivek Sharma, Ms. Neelu Sharma, Manish Raghav,
Sumit Saddi, Himanshu Singh Dhillon, Rohit Gour, Kartik Hooda, E. Vinay
Kumar, Raghuveer Pujari, Jugnu Bhati, Devvrat, Manoj K. Mishra, Mrs.
Rashmi Malhotra, Puneet Singh Bindra, Sachin Sharma, Abhinav
Ramkrishna, Vishal Prasad, Ms. Meenakshi Chauhan, Aakarshan Aditya,
Ms. Anzu K. Varkey, Devesh Kumar Agnihotri, Advs. for the Petitioner.
Mrs. Madhavi Divan, A.S.G., Vikas Singh, Pradeep Kumar Rai,
Ms. Rachana Srivastava, Ms. Sonia Mathur, Brijender Chahar, Dinesh
Kumar Goswami, Vikas Pahwa, Ranji Thomas, Ajit Kumar Sinha, S
Prabakaran, Manan Kumar Mishra, Apurba Sharma, Pradeep Rai, S.
Wasim A. Qadri, Puneet Bali, Sr. Advs., Mrs. Yugandhara Pawar Jha,
Reepak Kansal, Ms. Seema Patnaha, Kumar Gaurav, Mukesh Kumar
Singh, Vikas Gupta, Ms. Anjali Chauhan, Upendra Mishra, Ms. Nandani
Gupta, Satbir Singh Pillania, Ms. Sangeeta Singh, Ms. Deepeika Kalia,
Keshav Khandelwal, Aditya kaul, Sibo Sankar Mishra, Niranjan Sahu,
Umakant Misra, Sunil Mund, Ms. Apoorva Sharma, Ashok Mathur,
Manpreet Kaur Bhalla, Karan Thakur, Purvish Jitendra Malkan, Ms.
Dharita Purvish Malkan, Merusagar Samantaray, Anandh Kannan N.,
Dr. Ram Sankar, G Jai Singh, Yusuf, Ma. Gouthaman, Ms. Kiran Kumar
SB, M. Naveen, Prashant Singh, Siddharth Agrawal, Ashutosh Ghade,
Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad,
Nirmal Ambastha, Ms. Anjul Dwivedi, Ms. Shreya Srivastava, Ashish
Madaan, Ms. Ananya Sahu, Ms. Radhika, Vishwajeet Mishra, Sai Girdhar,
Mukesh Kumar Maroria, Mrs. Nandini Gore, Pai Amit, Anirudh
Sanganeria, Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, Vyom
Raghuvanshi, Ms. Akanksha Rathore, V. P. Singh, Ms. Rajshree Rai,
Siddhant Gupta, Arnav Mittal, Ms. Banshika Garg, Shashank Rai, Ms.
Ritika Gaur, Vipin Bharti, Aishwariya Pratap Shahi, Karan Singh
Chaudhary, Akshat Singh, Avinash Sharma, Udita Singh, Tamim Qadri,
Saeed Qadri, Shravan Kumar Verma, Sangeet Singh, Rajesh Ranjan,
Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Kanu Agarwal, Digvijay Dam, Anandh
Venkataramani, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Vinayak Mehrotra,
MS. INDIRA JAISING v. SUPREME COURT OF INDIA,
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