The practice of having\u00a0 a distinguished class of senior pleaders with considerable status and experience in India can be traced back to legal practice in the United Kingdom . This category is said to have originated in the 13 th century\u00a0 as a distinguished class of senior pleader known as Serjeants -at Law . In the 18 th century , selection in another such category , known as King\u2019s \/ Queen\u2019s Counsel became a matter of honour and a recognisation of profession \u00a0of eminence . \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The designation of Senior Advocates in India is a privilege awarded as a mark of excellence to advocates who have distinguished themselves and have made a significant contribution to the development of the legal profession . It identifies advocates whose standing and achievements would justify an expectation on the part of the clients , judiciary and the public, that they can provide outstanding services as advocates in the best of the administration of justice . \u00a0\u00a0The designation of Senior Advocates in India \u00a0is provided by section 16 of the Advocates Act , 1961 . Each High Court has their rules and regulations for designation of Senior Advocates. The Honourable Supreme Court of India has fine\u00a0 tuned the process of Designation of Senior Advocates by the Honourable Supreme Court of\u00a0 India . Highlights of the guidance are , generally advocates over age of 45 years are designated as Senior Advocates , only exceptional Advocates below age of 45 years should be considered , power of suo motu designation by Full court was not taken away by Supreme Court Guidelines to regulate Conferment of Designation of Senior Advocates of 2018\u00a0 . The Permanent Committee was empowered to assess applications on the basis of\u00a0 point based format .\u00a0<\/p>\n
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S. 16: Senior and other advocates \u2013 Regulation of process for designation as Senior Advocates \u2013Fine tuning of process \u2013 The designation of Senior Advocates in India is a privilege awarded as a mark of excellence to advocates who have distinguished themselves and have made a significant contribution to the development of the legal profession – Objective is to provide better assistance to litigants and the Courts . [ S.16(2), Art, 32 ] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allied-laws"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-9i5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35718,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717\/revisions\/35718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}