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Bombay HC remains old man’s world with no women in batch of 11 new senior counsel for 2nd time running

Bombay HC: Gentlemen welcome
Bombay HC: Gentlemen welcome
The Bombay high court, hot on the heels of the Delhi high court that designated three new senior advocates, has named 11 advocates to become seniors, though none of them were women.

In 2012 the Bombay high court again missed out on designating any women in a group of eight, while in 2013 the Delhi high court designated two women, out of four total new seniors.

The Supreme Court elevated 75 per cent women in its last round of four elevations in 2013.

According to Legally India analysis conducted in 2011, in 20 years in Mumbai and Delhi, there were only six women designated out of 203 new senior counsel.

The advocates designated this year are:

  • Ashutosh A Kumbhakoni
  • Rahul V Narichania
  • Dr K Shivaram
  • Beni Madhav P Chatterji
  • Anand Suryakant Jaiswal
  • Jayaprakash Sen
  • Gaurav R Joshi
  • Anil Sharadchandra Mardikar
  • AV Bukhari
  • Anil Vishnu Anturkar
  • Mukesh Manubhai Vashi

[Notification link: hat-tip to @superselector, for first tweeting the news yesterday]

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