Arbitration regulation skilled Tejas Karia on Friday took oath as a Delhi excessive courtroom choose, taking the courtroom’s energy to 39, in opposition to a sanctioned energy of 60 judges.
Justice Tejas Karia (proper), with Delhi excessive courtroom chief justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya on Friday. (HT Photograph)
The oath was administered by chief justice DK Upadhyay, a day after his appointment was notified by the Union authorities.
On Wednesday, Union regulation minister Arjun Ram Meghwal introduced the appointment on X, 5 months after the Supreme Court docket collegium advisable Karia.
In August 2024, the Supreme Court docket collegium advisable Karia paying attention to his substantial follow in arbitration regulation earlier than the Supreme Court docket, excessive courts, arbitration tribunals and intensive expertise in conducting arbitrations, each home and worldwide.
Born on February 1, 1978, Karia pursued his schooling in regulation from ILS Legislation School, College of Pune, and his first Grasp of Legislation in Company and Industrial Legal guidelines from College of Gujarat. He secured a second Grasp of Legislation from London College of Economics, College of London, with specialisation in worldwide industrial arbitration and data know-how legal guidelines.
Karia has 19 years’ expertise as an advocate and heads the arbitration follow of India’s high regulation agency Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas.
Though the Centre has cleared Karia’s identify, it has saved the identify of mental property rights (IPR) regulation skilled Shwetasree Majumdar pending, who was additionally advisable by the collegium in August 2024.
Majumdar’s elevation was pitched by the collegium as a possibility to boost range and inclusivity on the bench. She was cited as a seasoned lawyer in mental property rights (IPR) and the founding father of a regulation agency, with over 21 years of expertise.
To make sure, the collegium in the identical decision additionally advisable the names of advocates Ajay Digpaul and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, who took oath as judges of the Delhi excessive courtroom on January 8.