The elevations will take effect from 31 August 2012, having been notified on 14 September 2012 on the Bombay high court’s website.
The new senior advocates are:
- Ramesh N Dhorde (from Aurangabad)
- Vimal K Gupta (Mumbai)
- Vineet B Naik (Mumbai)
- Chandrashekhar S Kaptan (Nagpur)
- Prashant Subhash Pratap (Mumbai)
- Peshotan Nadir Modi (Mumbai)
- Rajiv L Patil (Mumbai)
- Anil C Singh (Mumbai)
Mirroring last year, when a record 15 senior counsel were designated in Mumbai in September 2011, not a single female lawyer received the nod this year.
Legally India research revealed in early 2011 that in 20 years only six women became senior counsel in the Delhi and Mumbai high courts – a total of three women senior counsel out of 81 in total.
Taking into account the lack of any female lawyers’ promotions in the last two years, the male to female senior counsel designation ratio since 1991 now stands at three women out of 104 promotions - less than 3 per cent.
However, the total number of promotions in Mumbai this year and last year has been considerably above the 20-year average of less than five senior counsel per year.
Senior counsel elevations are decided by a collegium of judges in a closed-door procedure.
The Society of Women Lawyers (SOWL) in a conference earlier this year discussed how many workplaces were structured in ways that hurt female lawyers’ careers.
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Maybe law is a male dominated profession (I have my doubts as to whether that is the reason behind less female partners). Maybe women can't always show the level of commitment in terms of facetime or in terms of socialising with clients/ the fraternity (due to other restraints and responsibilities they face). Who knows. But there are many female practitioners and almost 40-50% of a class in many lawschools is female. If women are not seen at the helm, it cannot be because the profession is a boys' club. Much ado over nothing really. There are many excellent female lawyers at the top of the profession.
As far as designating Seniors is concerned, the Bombay HC has been dangerously liberal in the past 2 years. For example, Mr. Naik here, will all due respect to his capability and calibre, is not even 40. He graduated from GLC in 1995. He and many others like him are excellent counsel, no doubt, but isn't it a little too early to designate?
Btw, is this Mr Naik from Naik,Naik & Co. ??
Also, does anybody know who was the youngest to be designated as Senior Counsel in Bombay HC??
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