SHRI R. VENKATARAMNI

LEARNED ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIA

Mr. Venkatramani is a lawyer with an experience of 42 years of practice in the Supreme Court. He enrolled in July 1977 in the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and joined the chambers of Mr. P.P. Rao, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court in 1979. He then set up an independent practice in the Supreme Court in the year 1982. He was designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India in the year 1997. Appointed as a Member of the Law Commission of India, in 2010 and again for a further term in the year 2013. He Has practiced in various branches of law prominently Constitutional Law, Arbitration Law, Law of Indirect Taxes, Corporate and Securities law, Environmental Law, laws relating to Education, Land Laws, Criminal Law, Human Rights Law, Consumer Law, as well as the law relating to services. He Has represented several State Governments, Universities, and Central and State Public Sector Undertakings in Supreme Court and High Courts. He Has also been a Special Senior Counsel for various departments of the Government of India in the Supreme Court and High Courts between 2004–2010 and has also been acting as Counsel for the Supreme Court in matters pertaining to the service conditions of employees of the Court. He has been actively involved in academic activities since 1988 commencing from his association with the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and is engaged with several law schools in their academic activities.

Dr. Lalit Bhasin is a President of Society of Indian Law Firms. A veteran in the legal space with over 60 years in practicing law, Dr Lalit Bhasin is Immediate Past President, The Bar Association of India.

He is the President at Society of Indian Law Firms, Dr Lalit Bhasin is also the Chairman of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators India. He is the Honorary Life Member at International Bar Association, the only Indian to be honoured by IBA. He is Chairman at Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Task Force on Legal Services.

He serves as the Member, Management Committee, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry and acts as National Vice President, Indo American Chambers of Commerce. He formerly was the Chairman at Delhi Bar Council and for the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal.

Dr. Lalit Bhasin has also served as the Past President at Inter Pacific Bar Association, and a member of International Court of Arbitration Paris as well. He is Senior Adviser to the South Asia / Oceania and India Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association. He was awarded with Doctor of Laws (LL. D.) Honoris Causa by Jaipur University in 2013.

Remarkably, Dr. Lalit Bhasin was awarded the Plaque of Honour by the Prime Minister of India in 2002 for his outstanding contribution to the Rule of Law. In 2007, Dr Lalit Bhasin was awarded by the President of India as well.

Justice Sudesh Bansal

Born on 05th May 1972. Passed B.Sc. in the year 1991 and LL.B. in 1994. Joined the Bar in the year 1995 and started practicing, initially at the District Court Jaipur and also appeared before other District Courts of Rajasthan viz. Ajmer, Dausa, Jodhpur, Nagaur etc. and from the year 2000, at the Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court regularly.

Panel Lawyer for the Rajasthan Housing Board, Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam, Public Trusts etc.

Performed mediation at the Mediation Center, Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur Bench since year 2008.

Key areas of expertise included Civil, Arbitration, Land Acquisition, Revenue, Constitutional matters, Misc. criminal matters, Matrimonial matters, Motor Accident Claims cases and miscellaneous Education and Service matters.

Appointed as Judge of the Rajasthan High Court and took oath on 18th October 2021.