The Supreme Court today found advocate Mathews Nedumpara guilty of contempt of court.
The Court also dismissed a plea filed by National Lawyers Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms challenging the current system of designation of lawyers as Senior Advocates.
Notice has been issued to Nedumpara returnable in two weeks, to decide the quantum of punishment
According to NLC, the classification of advocates as senior and non-senior is discriminatory, favouring "elite class of lawyers, the kith and kin, nephews and juniors of sitting and former Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, so too of celebrated lawyers, Chief Ministers, Governors et al, and a few first generation lawyers who are all politically connected or are close to big industrial houses".
The petition also demanded that till the said system is abolished, lawyers who have crossed the age of 62 years and who have been in practice for 35 years, if not more, be designated as Senior Advocates as the Supreme Court did in the case of retired High Court Judges.
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