Nikilesh Ramachandran
Designation: Partner
YEAR OF ENROLMENT 1994, Enrolment No. D/594/94.
General Legal Practice in the field of Civil, Criminal, Arbitration, Banking Laws, Labour and Industrial Laws, Commercial Drafting and Conveyancing, Consumer Protection, Central Excise and Customs, Collaboration Agreements, Environment Law, Patent and Intellectual Property Rights, Commercial Disputes, Shipping, Insurance and all kinds of commercial transactions.
Extensively involved in litigation in Supreme Court, High Court and various other authorities and fora for nearly 26 years in the field of administrative law, arbitration law, company law, commercial law, constitutional law, contract law, labour and industrial law, excise and customs, insurance, intellectual property law and service law.
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MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
1994 Involved in the compilation of 78 volumes of submissions submitted by 48 parties in Special Reference No. 1 of 1994, relating to the Ram Janm Bhoomi-Babri Masjid (Ayodhya) dispute. Successfully compiled them into 16 volumes with index.
1995 Involved in the litigation of International Airports Authority of India versus Grand slam international in Supreme Court. Succeeded in entitling the then IAAI (now AAI) to recover demurrage charges.
1995 Involved in the question of constitutional rights of prisoners to receive minimum wages.
1996 Involved in the litigation relating to the challenge of Telecom Policy. Succeeded in transferring various Public Interest Litigation, filed in various High Courts, to the Supreme Court, which was the genesis of the judgement in Delhi Science Forum v/s Union of India.
2002 Qualified as an Advocate-on-Record in Supreme Court and has been appearing, filing and arguing matters before the Supreme Court.
2005 Appointed as an Arbitrator for adjudicating cases relating to disputed Domain Name, India's official domain name registry. Have disposed of a large number of cases. (http://www.inregistry.in/policies/dispute_resolution/arbitrators)
2010-2013 Engaged in various cases of national and public importance, both appearing for State Government enterprises as well as private bodies before the Supreme Court and High Courts.
2015-2016 Was appointed as Standing Counsel for the State of Kerala and was entrusted with matters of varied issues more particularly Social Justice and Causes, which presently