Protik Prakash Banerjee (1 June 1969 – 3 July 2020) was an additional judge of the

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Early life

Banerjee studied in

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and completed his legal education from

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in 1994. His father Mukul Prakash Banerjee was a senior Counsel of the Calcutta High Court, having enrolled at the Bar in 1961. Before passing Law he also did a stint as a compere of Western Music at

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from 1986 and served as a regular columnist of

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on various subjects other than law. In 8 December 2009 he was nominated by the

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to the Governing Body of the

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and served till 2011.

Career

Banerjee worked as the guest lecturer at the

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. He joined the High Court of Calcutta as an advocate in 1995 and was selected for the post of Junior Standing Counsel of the

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in 2011. He also became the Vice President of Bar association of the High Court, Calcutta. On 20 September 2017 he was nominated and took oath as a judge of the Calcutta High Court.

Awards

Banerjee received the best speaker award at the

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Annual Debate of 2007. He was also awarded the Advocate General's Trophy for the most outstanding Emerging Lawyer by the Indian Law Institute (West Bengal Unit) in 2009. He is the first advocate in

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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

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Death

Protik Prakash Banerjee died at age 51 on Friday, 3 July, 2020 due to heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Piyali Banerjee and their daughter, Samadrita Banerjee.

References

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