User:Prabakaran Subramaniam

Thiru.S.Prabakaran, is an Indian jurist, Senior Advocate to the Supreme Court of India and is the Co-Chairman of the Bar Council of India. He is the first from Tamil Nadu to be elected to the prestigious position of Co-Chairman of the Bar Council of India. He is an internationally recognized jurist and has the unique distinction of being the very first Lawyer from the Madras High Court to become a Member of the American Bar Association. He has also represented the Bar Council of India before the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Law and Regulations on the contentious issue regarding the entry of foreign law firms in India.

He was elected as the youngest President of the Madras High Court Advocates Association and secured the same prestigious position for four consecutive years; thereafter he was elected as the Member of Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the year 2011 and was later elected as the Member of the Bar Council of India in the year 2011. He is currently the President of the Tamil Nadu Advocates Association and is also the Co-Chairman of the Bar Council of India.

He is also a reformer of our legal academic system and is the Member Syndicate of Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai, General Council Member of National Law University, Bangalore and General Council Member of National Law School, Trichy. He launched the Online Verification System the first of its kind, a system devised to verify the certificates of Law students applying to be enrolled as Advocates on the rolls of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Mr.S.Prabhakaran is known to be a dynamic, an inventive reformer and a leader of the legal fraternity. He primarily practices at the Supreme Court of India but also appears in various High Courts and Arbitration, sometimes as counsel and other times as an adjudicator. He specializes in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Commercial Litigation, Constitutional Law, Construction Law, Consumer Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Cyber Law, Defamation, Drug Control Law, Employee Benefits Law, Employment Law, Environmental Law, Family Law, Health and Safety Law, Immigration Law, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Law, International Human Rights Law, Juvenile Law, Litigation, Medical Law, Public International Law and Tax Law. His appearance in the Supreme Court of India in the year 2014 is noteworthy in the case of R. Gandhi vs Union of India which dealt with the appointment of Judges in the year 2014. In addition to this he has consistently been defending fellow Lawyers under various circumstances and has also been a guardian of the legal fraternity. He has also been submitting several reports to the Bar Council of India about Legal Education Committee. He has also proposed several necessary amendments in the Legal Education Rules for the welfare budding lawyers and has made representations in the Parliamentarian Committee pertaining to it.