Shri Justice Venkatachari Lakshminarayanan presently Additional Judge of the Madras High Court has been appointed as Judge of Madras High Court .
Justice Venkatachari Lakshminarayanan is born on 04-10-1970 . High School and Higher Secondary Sir M.Ct. Muthiah Chettiar Higher Secondary School Bachelor of Law National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore (1990-1995) Bachelor of Science D.G. Vaishnav College, (affiliated Madras University) Arumbakkam, Chennai.(1987-1990)
• Dy Editor in Chief, Madras Law Journal & Madras Law Journal (criminal) – 2010 till date
• Member, Honorary Editorial Committee, the Madras Law Journal – 2008-2010
• Joint Editor of the STUDENT ADVOCATE 1994 & 1995.
• Member of the Honorary Board of Editors of the Indian Student Law Review
• Contributor in the volume on Landlord and Tenants, Halsbury’s Law of India. Book Authored by Mr. K. Kannan, Senior Advocate, Madras (Later elevated as a judge of the Madras and Punjab & Haryana High Courts)
• Co author on Constitutional Czars in the Hall of fame along with Mr. Vijayaraghavan, Advocate, High Court, Madras
• Co author on Mulla’s transfer of Property Act, 1882 (14th Edition) along with Mr. Justice N. Anand Venkatesh
• Co-author along with Professor Dr. Telekat Devidas, Professor, Constitutional and Administrative Law, NLSIU, Bangalore – on Administrative Law in the MARCH OF THE LAW Journal, 1995
• Have been a resource person at the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy in training Judicial officers from the level of District Munsif (civil Judge Lower Division) to District Judges (civil Judge Senior Division)
• Have been a resource person on the Arbitration and Conciliation Act with the Madras Institute of Management Studies.
• Have been a speaker at the seminar held by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the Nani Palkivala Arbitration Centre (NPAC) on judicial approach to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act at Coimbatore.
• Nominated by His Excellency the Governor of the State of Tamil Nadu as Senate Member (Law) of the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University in 2018 and again in 2021.
• Represented India in the Prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program in 2012.
• Lecturer at the National Judicial Academy of Nepal on Law Reporting and Editing – An Indian Perspective – 16th January, 2021.
• June 1995 till date Practicing Advocate, High Court, Madras
• Have appeared before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts of Mumbai, Delhi and Karnataka, Company Law Board, Debts Recovery Tribunal and appellate Tribunals in Chennai and Bombay
• Central Administrative Tribunals, State Administrative Tribunal, National Green Tribunal (southern Zone) Chennai
• Intellectual Property Appellate Board
• Wakf Tribunals at Chennai, Madurai & Vellore.
Standing Counsel for :
i. Tamil Nadu Waqf Board from 2008
ii. Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (Government of India Undertaking) from 2007
iii. Central Warehousing Corporation (Government of India Undertaking) from 2000
iv. Honorary Legal Advisor for the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board from 2018
v. Anna University, Guindy, Chennai from 2021
vi. National Health Mission, DMS, Chennai
1. Constitutional law
2. Civil & Criminal Law
3. Law of Trusts with special emphasis on Hindu & Islamic law of trusts
4. Intellectual property
Have penned more than 250 articles in leading law journals and national dailies including the Madras Law Journal, the Supreme Court Cases, The Law Weekly, March of the Law, the Student Advocate, The Deccan Chronicle and the Times of India.
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Justice Venkatachari Lakshminarayanan the very best.
