The petitioner, a practising advocate, who professes to be a seeker of justice and who claims to have fought legal battles involving public issues of importance and has excelled in the profession, has come forward praying for repairing the damage caused due to the promulgation of rules regulating the designation of a distinction, that of a Senior Advocate, which according to him is bestowing of an honour, and thus the High Court should not cage itself within impermissible parameters of law so as to frustrate the very purpose of this choice. Rules, according to him, should not put shackles on the free expression of opinion by the Full Court so as to narrow down the objective of a true search and identification of exceptional legal talent. The process of selection should be by way of direct recognition and not stultified through an advisory opinion of a body of lesser numbers that has no statutory authorisation.

2. Subjectivity in choice of such conferment according to him should not prevail to an extent that those like the petitioner, who by their dint of hard labour and devotion have made a place for themselves in the profession worthy of timely recognition, should be left