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A super-elite club of senior advocates dominates India's courts.pdf
Quartz
(2017)
Abstract
An oligarchy rules India’s courtrooms. It dons fancy robes and bills premium fees. Still, litigants desire it, junior lawyers suffer it, and judges respect it. It is the oligarchy of senior advocates.
That oligarchy shall continue, India's supreme court recently decided. But key changes are afoot. Achieving seniority, until now, meant threading a black box. Few understood how the system worked and why.
Not anymore.
Now advocates aspiring to elevated status have an open, orderly path to it. This is a big bang reform. A new cast of counsels may sprint to prominence, altering how long-litigating Indians access legal services.
Keywords
- Senior Advocates,
- Supreme Court of India,
- designation,
- seniority,
- barristers
Disciplines
- Law,
- Constitutional Law and
- Courts
Publication Date
November 5, 2017
Citation Information
Shubhankar Dam. "A super-elite club of senior advocates dominates India's courts.pdf" Quartz (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/shubhankar_dam/59/