The designation of senior advocates cannot be termed bad in law and it does not violate Article 14 of Constitution, Attorney General K K Venugopal has told the Supreme Court. <br/><br/>The top law officer told a three-judge bench yesterday that if Senior designation for advocates is held to be bad in law, then even the system of Advocate on Records would have to be held to be bad. <br/><br/>The AG added the classification between lawyers is being done on the basis of various parameters like standing at bar, knowledge of law and integrity. He said this classification helps a litigant to brief a particular counsel. <br/><br/>The apex court had in March referred a PIL filed by senior lawyer Indira Jaising to a larger three-judge bench. <br/><br/>The litigation sought transparency and overhauling in the opaque system of designating lawyers as senior advocates. Jaising had said that current procedure was discriminatory and should be discarded in favour of a more transparent system.<br/><br/>The bench, after hearing the arguments, reserved its verdict.