R Venkataramani

SKOCH Law Award

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Mr R Venkatramani, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court 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

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