Indira Jaising questions selection of ‘senior advocates’

Former Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising.

Former Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising Wednesday wrote letters to Chief Justice of India H L Dattu and other Supreme Court judges questioning the manner in which lawyers were being designated as ‘senior advocates’. “The impression has long being growing at the Bar that only relatives of seniors of those who come from particular chambers get designated. What is worse, there seems to be an imbalance between caste and communities and I can only hope that this is not conscious as that would go against the ethos of the Constitution by which we are all governed,” Jaising wrote in her letter.

Referring to the latest designation of five lawyers as senior advocates, she further complained that each of these lawyers was a general practitioner and advocates with PIL background and domain expertise had been totally left out.