New Delhi, May 23 -- The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) elections held on Thursday have brought in a new leadership, with advocate Devvrat elected as president, Nikhil Jain as vice-president and Yugandhara Pawar Jha as secretary, while counting for other posts continued till late Friday evening.

The SCAORA, established four decades ago, comprises more than 3,000 advocates-on-record (AoR) who have the unique privilege to file and conduct cases in the top court. The association has been credited with filing a petition in the top court in the early 1990s, which led to the landmark decision through which the Collegium system of judicial appointments was judicially devised.

Later, when Parliament amended the Constitut...