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Dr. Adish C. Aggarwala (Gold medalist, Ph. D. in Law and designated Senior Advocate) is a dynamic high profile lawyer, writer and social activist. He had the rare distinction of serving as Senior Additional Advocate General of Government of Haryana and Additional Advocate General of Governments of States of Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Punjab and Special Counsel and Senior Central Government Counsel in the Supreme Court of India.
His current involvements include: President of International Council of Jurists, London (www.internationaljurists.org) President of International Commission of Writers, Geneva; Chairman of All India Bar Association (www.allindiabar.org); President of Supreme Court Bar Association (www.scbaindia.org); Convener of Indian Council of Jurists (www.indianjurists.org); Chairman of India Legal Information Institute (www.indlii.org); and Secretary General of All India Senior Advocates Association. He has been Executive Council Member and General Council Member of National Law School of India University, Bangalore (www.nls.ac.in) and Governing Council Member of National Law University, Delhi and Academic Council Member of Chanakya National Law University, Patna.
He has been the youngest elected Acting Chairman and Elected Vice-Chairman of Bar Council of India (www.barcouncilofindia.org), which is the apex statutory body of lawyers constituted under the Advocates Act, 1961. As in-charge of legal education in India, Dr. Aggarwala was responsible for the closure of more than 150 sub-standard law schools across the country. He is credited with raising standards of legal education and has established 140 new law schools. He is a visiting faculty in many reputed law schools in India and abroad.
He has the rare distinction of creating new records in Bar Association elections from Sub-Division to Supreme Court levels. In 1998, for the first time in the history of Bar Councils, two brothers Dr. Adish C. Aggarwala and Mr. Satish Aggarwala won the election at the same time.He also has the rare distinction of being elected (with record margin) as 2-terms Senior Executive Committee Member of Supreme Court Bar Association and 2- terms Executive Committee Member of Supreme Court Bar Association; 1-term Executive Committee Member of Delhi High Court Bar Association; Joint Secretary of Rohtak District Bar Association and Joint Secretary of Bahadurgarh Bar Associaton He has also been singularly conferred with the honour of looking after the matters of Govt. of India as its Senior counsel, under the Prime Ministership of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. V.P. Singh, Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Mr. P.V. Narasimha Rao, Mr. H.D. Deve Gowda, Mr. I.K. Gujral, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Mr. Narendra Modi. He has had the rare distinction of serving as Additional Advocate General of Punjab, Haryana and Tamil Nadu simultaneously – all three states remaining under the governance of different political parties opposed to each other.