Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 — section 35

35. Order in which names shall be entered in the roll..—(1) Entries in the roll shall be made in the order of seniority and such seniority shall be determined as follows, namely

(a)all such persons as are referred to in [clause (a) of Section 23,] clause (a) of Section 24 or clause (a) of Section 25 shall be entered first in the order in which they were respectively entitled to seniority inter se immediately before the commencement of this Act; and

(b)the seniority of any other person admitted, after that date, to be an advocate or an advocate of the High Court [or an advocate of the Supreme Court] shall be determined by the date of his admission: Provided that, for the purposes of clause (b), the seniority of a person who, before his admission as an advocate, was entitled as of right to practise in any other High Court shall be determined by the date on which he became so entitled.

(2)Where the date of seniority of two or more persons is the same, the one senior in age shall rank as senior to the other.