GLOBAL LEGAL & IP CONFERENCE

Le Meridien, Windsor Pl, Connaught Place,

New Delhi, India

6th & 7th March India | 2024

In Association With

The Indian Society of International Law

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Guests of Honour

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal

Judge of Supreme Court of India.

Justice Rajesh Bindal was born in Ambala, Haryana on April 16th,1961. He received his LL.B. from Kurukshetra University in 1985 and started practising at the Punjab & Haryana High Court the same year. He represented various government departments in Punjab and Haryana. These included the Punjab & Haryana Employees Provident Fund Organization, and the Haryana Income-tax Department. He also represented Haryana and Punjab before the Central Administrative Tribunal until he was elevated as a judge.

Justice Bindal was appointed as a Judge at the Punjab & Haryana HC in 2006 and served there for twelve years till 2018. During this time, he disposed of around 80,000 cases. He also chaired several committees. For instance, he was the chairperson of a committee constituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to study Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Bill, 2016.

After his transfer to the Jammu & Kashmir HC in 2018, his was committed to making legal instruments more accessible to the public and using technology to better the legal field. His efforts are visible through his involvement in countless committees for computers, finance, building and infrastructure, information technology, and legal services.

He was transferred to the Calcutta HC in January 2021. In April 2021, he was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta HC until he was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad HC in October 2021.

R Venkataramani

Attorney General for India

R. Venkataramani (born 13 April 1950) is an Indian constitutional lawyer and a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India. He is currently serving as the Attorney-General for India.He was appointed as a Member, Law Commission of India in 2010. He has been appearing for the State of Tamil Nadu as a Special Senior Counsel for the past 12 years and also acting as Special Senior Counsel for the State of Andhra Pradesh. His alma mater is Loyola College, Chennai. He did his schooling in Petit Seminaire Higher Secondary School - Puducherry.

Mr. Venkataramani was born in Pondicherry. He became a registered lawyer with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu in 1977 and later moved to the Supreme Court in 1979. In 1997, he was appointed as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court. Throughout his career, he represented various clients, including the Central government, state governments, universities, and public sector entities, in both the Supreme Court and High Court. Additionally, Mr. Venkataramani was a member of the Law Commission of India in both 2010 and 2013.

R Venkataramani acted as the receiver in the Amrapali case and also represented parties in the recent Hijab row case in the Supreme Court of India. He has appeared as counsel for the Supreme Court in cases concerning the service conditions of Court employees.

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pankaj Mithal

Judge of The Supreme Court of India

Pankaj Mithal (born 17 June 1961) is a Judge of The Supreme Court of India. He is the former Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. Previously, he has also served as the Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court and Judge of the Allahabad High Court.

He was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh on 17 June 1961 into a family of lawyers. He received his early education at St. Mary's Academy, Meerut, which is affiliated to the Indian School Certificate (I.S.C.) Board. He joined B.Com. (Honours) at the University of Allahabad and graduated in 1982. Later he joined Meerut College, for his legal studies and obtained his law degree from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. He is now living in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

He was enrolled in the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh in the year 1985 and started practicing at the High Court as an advocate. In his initial days he worked under the guidance of Sri Sudhir Chandra Verma, (later Judge of the Allahabad High Court and then Lokayukt, Uttar Pradesh). He mainly practiced on the civil side and dealt with a large number of cases of land acquisition, rent control, educational, labour and other misc. matters including service and constitution.

He served as the Standing Counsel for the Uttar Pradesh Awas Evam Vikas Parishad and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra. He was elevated to the Bench as an Additional Judge on 7 July 2006 and was later made a permanent Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad on 2 July 2008. He was instrumental in revising the quota of work for the subordinate judiciary of U.P. as Chairman of that Committee. He was member of the Sub-Committee on Coins and Postage Stamps of the Sesquicentennial Committee which oversaw the release of a set of two stamps with the pictures of buildings of the Allahabad High Court and the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court and issuance of a set of commemorative coins of Rs.150/- Coin and Rs.5/- with the logo of the High Court by the President of India on 13 March 2016 during the inaugural ceremony of the Sesquicentennial celebrations of the High Court. He also remained posted as senior Judge, Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court for some time. He worked as Chairman State Advisory Board under the National Security Act while posted at Lucknow. He was the Chairman of La Martinière College, Lucknow (both boys' and girls' wings). He was elevated as Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on 4 January 2021. He was transferred as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 14 October 2022.

His Excellency the Governor of Uttar Pradesh nominated Justice Mithal twice as a member of the Executive Council of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidhyapith, Varanasi and presently her excellency the Governor of U.P. has nominated him as the member of the Executive Council of Choudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut.

He is also a trustee of Etawah Hindi Sewa Nidhi founded and promoted by Justice Late Prem Shankar Gupta for the promotion of Hindi and other Indian languages.[citation needed]

He was elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 6 February 2023

Tushar Mehta

Solicitor General of India

Tushar Mehta is a senior counsel in India and is currently serving as the Solicitor General of India.

Mehta attended the Gujarat University, where he obtained his law degree and received five gold medals.He has also received honorary doctorates from Amity University, Noida and Karnataka State Law University.

Mehta began his career as an advocate in 1987 and was designated as a senior advocate in 2007 at the age of 42 by the Gujarat High Court. He was appointed as the Additional Advocate General in 2008.Mehta was appointed as the Additional Solicitor General of India in 2014. Mehta was then appointed as the Solicitor General of India in 2018.

Shri Pravin. H. Parekh

President of the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL)

Shri P. H. Parekh is Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He has been designated "Senior Advocate" by the Supreme Court of India in 2007. He founded and headed 'P.H. Parekh & Co.', one of the premier law firms in India, with one of the largest filing in the Supreme Court for the last three decades. He has edited and authored a number of books, articles and spoken extensively at various national and international seminars in different parts of the world. He did LL.B. from Government Law College, Bombay. He was President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (six terms 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2011-2012 & 2013-2014).

Dr. Lalit Bhasin

President - Society of Indian Law Firms, India

Bhasin & Co., Advocates

• President, Society of Indian Law Firms
• National President, Indo American Chamber of Commerce
• Immediate Past President, The Bar Association of India
• Chairman, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - India
• Senior Advisor, South Asia / Oceania and India Committee, American Bar Association
• Honorary Life Member, International Bar Association
• Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
National Committee on Legal Services
• Member, Management Committee,
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Former Chairman, Delhi Bar Council
• Former Chairman, Film Certification Appellate Tribunal
• Member, International Court of Arbitration Paris
• Past President, Inter Pacific Bar Association

Awarded Doctor of Laws (LL. D.) Honoris Causa by Amity University in 2013

He was awarded the Plaque of Honour by the Prime Minister of India in 2002 for outstanding contribution to the Rule of Law.

In 2007, the President of India presented the National Law Day Award to Lalit Bhasin.

December 21, 2022 conferred Life Time Achievement Award at House of Lords in London by UK India Legal Partnership

Glorious 61 Years in the Profession Award by Legal Era on 15th April 2023

Felicitated by Lloyd Law College on May 7, 2023

Outstanding Arbitration Expert Award 2023 by Asia Pacific Centre for Arbitration and Mediation APCAM on May 6, 2023

Awarded Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Honoris Causa for exemplary contribution to the legal profession by GD Goenka University, Gurgaon on May 13, 2023