Supreme Court Designates 6 Female Lawyers As Senior Advocates

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has designated six female lawyers, including Madhavi Goradia Divan, Additional Solicitor General (ASG), as senior advocates. Besides Divan, the other five lawyers are Aishwarya Bhati, Menaka Guruswamy, Anitha Shenoy, Aparajita Singh, and Priya Hingorani. It was part of the March 27 announcement when the top court designated 37 lawyers as senior advocates

Divan was appointed ASG on December 17, 2018, and is slated to hold office till June 30, 2020. An alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, she obtained law degree from the Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, the UK. Divan also argued in the Triple Talaq case in the Supreme Court and pitched to criminalize the practice.

Bhati was appointed the Additional Advocate General of UP in Supreme Court in 2017. Originally from Rajasthan, she completed her L.L.B. from the Jodhpur University. Bhati is a former Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association and has represented UP in the Taj Mahal preservation case.

Guruswamy, known for her contributions to the decriminalisation of the Section 377 offences, has worked at a law firm in New York and also as a Human Rights Consultant to the UN. Shenoy, an advocate-on-record at the Supreme Court, is a 1995 graduate of the National Law School, Bengaluru, and has been the standing counsel for Karnataka in the Supreme Court. Singh is recognised for her contribution as amicus curiae in a matter related to air pollution. Due to her arguments, the Supreme Court banned the sale of any Bharat Stage III vehicles across India from April 2017. She has practiced as a junior with senior advocates U.U. Lalit and Harish Salve.

Hingorani, active since 1990, has primarily practiced at the Supreme Court and has also appeared in the high courts of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Punjab and Haryana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttarakhand and J&K as well as various tribunals and subordinate Courts. (IANS)

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