India, April 15 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a fresh assessment of applications for the designation of senior advocates at the Delhi High Court as per the rules framed last year, saying the previous panel failed to factor in the marks one of its members awarded for the purpose.

A bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said the earlier committee conferred senior advocate designations on 70 lawyers out of over 300 applicants. It added that the previous panel failed to consider the marks that senior advocate Sudhir Nandrajog, one of its members, had awarded. Nandrajog resigned in protest over this, a day after the list of newly-designated senior advocates was published in November last year.

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