Protik Prokash Banerji
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Protik Prokash Banerji is the first Indian lawyer to have won a judgment in favour of his client that an arbitrator under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 is amenable to jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution of India and that orders of the arbitrator may be challenged under Article 227, which remained the law of the land for 5 years before being impliedly overruled by the Supreme Court of India in 2005.
[edit] Co-curricular
Banerji is a guest faculty or honorary lecturer at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences for final year in two consecutive semesters, taking Corporate and Contract Clinic Classes, and Corporate Laws in the 3rd year. He also did a stint as a compere of Western Music at All India Radio, Kolkata between 1986 and 1994. He has been a regular contributor to The Economic Times, India’s largest financial daily, between 1989 and 1994, on various subjects unconnected with law.
[edit] Awards
Best Speaker at the Indian Law Institute Annual Debate of 2001
Best Speaker at the Indian Law Institute Annual Debate of 2007
[edit] References
1. 2000(2) Calcutta High Court Notes 340, Unik Accurates Vs Sumedha Fiscal, Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya, impliedly overruled per Majority judgment by the Supreme Court in the case reported in 2005 (8) Supreme Court Cases at page 618.
2. Aids Orientation Programme for ANCs and AMCs, Nurses and Teachers – publisher UNICEF, Co-writer Protik Prokash Banerji
3. Commentary on Bengal Excise Act, and another commentary on the Original Side Rules being in progress, published by Venus and Swastik Books, 2007 – edited by Protik Prokash Banerji.
4. Calcutta High Court Notes, 2000 to 2005, Associate Editor Protik Prokash Banerji.
