The Gujarat High Court has mandated that advocates applying for senior advocate designation must be of minimum 45-year age to claim eligibility, in its newly notified High Court of Gujarat (Designation of Senior Advocate) Rules, 2025. Meanwhile Senior advocate and former GHCAA president Yatin Oza, has written to Brijesh Trivedi, President of the Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association (GHCAA), raising his strong objections to this undertaking rule. According to Oza, the requirement of furnishing an undertaking "compromises the dignity and self-respect of senior advocates", since, he contends, the obligations listed are already implicit in the very concept of senior designation. He adds that instead of compelling a signed undertaking, the objectives could simply be incorporated within the rules as norms. Oza further pointed out that neither the Supreme Court's guidelines on the designation of seniors nor the Bombay High Court Rules require such an undertaking.