ORDER :

M.SUNDAR, J.

Captioned Writ Petition and 'Writ Miscellaneous Petition' ['WMP' for the sake of brevity] thereat have been listed before this Division Bench pursuant to an order made by Hon'ble Acting Chief Justice being order dated 13.12.2022 on the administrative side.

2. Captioned Writ Petition has been filed by writ petitioner seeking equal numbers or 30% reservation for women advocates in the conferment of designation of Senior Advocates from the lists of candidates published vide notifications dated 31.10.2020 and 04.08.2022 being Notification No.1/2020/Permanent Secretariat for Designation of Senior Advocate and Notification No.2/2022/SSA respectively.

3. Mr.B.Ravi Raja, learned counsel along with Mr.R.R.Kannan and Mr.M.Sivakumar, counsel on record for writ petitioner, Ms.Chitra Sampath, learned Senior Advocate instructed by Ms.D.Prasanna, counsel on record for Women Lawyers' Association/intervenor and Mr.M.Santhanaraman, learned Standing Counsel for respondents 1, 2 and 3 were before this Court.

4. This order has to be read in conjunction with and in continuation of th