Today, the Supreme Court unique 37 advocates as senior advocates.
Six girls feature in that list. They are :
- Madhavi Goradia Divan
- Anitha Shenoy
- Aparajita Singh
- Menaka Guruswamy
- Aishwarya Bhati
- Priya Hingorani
Madhavi Divan is at present an Additional Solicitor General inside the Supreme Court. She changed into appointed ASG on December 17, 2018, and will keep the workplace till June 30, 2020. Advocate Divan acquired her regulation degree from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK, and started her practice in the Bombay High Court. She was because she represented two kingdom governments—that of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh—while also being known as an executed author.
Anitha Shenoy is a 1995 graduate of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and has been the status recommend for the State of Karnataka inside the Supreme Court for lengthy. Menaka Guruswamy is a 1997 graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She studies regulation as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. She becomes awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Law (D. Phil.) and a Gammon fellow for a Masters in Law at Harvard Law School.
She has labored as a human rights consultant to the United Nations and has taught at the New York University School of Law. In the Navtej Johar case, which decriminalized homosexuality, Guruswamy represented IIT students and graduates who belong to the LGBTQIA network. She had additionally assisted the SC as amicus in the Manipur extra-judicial killings case. She has the rare honor of having her portrait unveiled at Rhodes House in Oxford University. Her call changed into blanketed inside the Forbes list of 2019 trailblazers.
Aishwarya Bhati is an Advocate on Record. In yr 2017, she changed into appointed as AAG of Uttar Pradesh in the Supreme Court. Bhati defined the senior designation as a “dream come real” and that she became aware of the “wonderful obligation” that comes with the designation. Priya Hingorani has been an energetic law exercise because yr 1990 while she becomes enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi. Her primary exercise has been within the Supreme Court of India. It has also been regarded within the High Courts of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Punjab & Haryana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttarakhand, and Jammu & Kashmir as also Tribunals and subordinate Courts. She has treated subjects about various fields of law, consisting of taxation, customs and excise, coverage, family and matrimonial law, industrial regulation, labor and carrier law, human rights, and constitutional law.
Aparajitha Singh becomes a junior to Senior Advocates Harish Salve and U U Lalit before beginning unbiased exercise. She had assisted the apex courtroom as amicus curiae to indicate measures for curtailing air pollution, which caused the ban of the sale of BSIII automobiles seeing that April 2017. She becomes a part of a committee that had counseled a not unusual working plan on rehabilitation of destitute widows.
