Bombay High Court designates 20 lawyers as Senior Advocates

The notification was issued in exercise of the High Court’s powers under Section 16 (2) of the Advocates Act, 1961.

The newly designated Senior Advocates are as follows:

– Abhay S Khandeparkar

– Ashish S Kamat

– Gopal Krishna Shivram Hegde

– Rajshekhar V Govilkar

– Girish S Godbole

– Kiran S Bapat

– Vaibhav V Joglekar

– Suresh S Pakale

– Girish Anant Kulkarni

– Lata Sudhir Desai

– Shaikh Arshad Rauf Mubeen Ahmed

– Sanjeeva B Deshpande

– Hormaz C Daruwalla

– Umesh R Shetty

– Firdosh P Pooniwalla

– Prateek Suresh Seksaria

– Chetan Shantilal Kapadia

– Narendra V Bandiwadekar

– Zubin Soli Behramkamdin

– Kiran Bhagalia (Kelkar)

The full court meeting headed by Acting Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala cleared the twenty names on February 16.

The notification conferring the gown was published on February 17, Friday but will come into force with effect from February 16.