Protik Prokash Banerji

Protik Prokash Banerji is the first Advocate in India to have won a judgment in favor 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. 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 in most fact situations. He was educated at the prestigious Calcutta Boys' School.
Awards
*Best Speaker at the Indian Law Institute Annual Debate of 2007
*Best Speaker at the Indian Law Institute Annual Debate of 2007
* Awarded the Advocate General's Trophy for the Most Outstanding Emerging Lawyer by the Indian Law Institute (West Bengal Unit) in 2009, trophy donated by His Lordship the Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, Hon'y Treasurer.
Co-curricular
Banerji was a guest faculty/honorary lecturer at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences for the 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. From December 8, 2009 he was nominated by His Excellency the Governor of West Bengal to the Governing Body of the Surendranath Law College and served till June 6, 2011.

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