The Madhya Pradesh High Court full bench has designated 15 lawyers as Senior Advocates.
This is the first such designation of lawyers after the Supreme Court order of 2017 laying down guidelines for it. This included a three-tiered process led by the High Court’s Chief Justice.
The lawyers conferred the gown by the Madhya Pradesh High Court are the following:
Ajay Bagadiya;
Ajay Gupta;
Arun Kumar Shrivastava;
Arvind Dudawat;
Atul Anand Awasthy;
Girish Patwardhan;
Hemant Shirvastava;
Imtiaz Husain;
Kailash Chandra Ghildiyal;
M.P.S. Raghuvanshi;
Manoj Kumar Sharma;
Ravindra Singh Chhabra;
Sanjay Agrawal;
Shashank Shekhar;
Sushil Kumar Tiwari.
It may be noted that none of the woman advocate designated as senior by the High Court.