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Pavan DUGGAL
Advocate, Supreme Court of India
C-2/60, Janak Puri
New Delhi 110058
India
Telephone: +91-11-46584441 Fax: +91 11 2555 4607
+91-11-46584432 Fax: +91 11 2561 5927
+91-98-10271805 E-mail : pduggal@gmail.com
+91-98-71776180
Date of Birth: September 10, 1964
Nationality: Indian
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
LL.B., Bachelor of Law, Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, 1985-1988;
Bachelor of Arts (Hons-History), St.Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, 1982-85.
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LANGUAGES
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu.
PRESENT POSITION
Practising Advocate, Supreme Court of India;
President, Cyberlaws.Net, 1998-present;
Founder President, Cyberlaw Asia, 1998-present;
Founder President , Cyberlaw India, 1998-present;
Founder, Cyber Arbitration Associated with UNESCO on Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges of
June 11, 2013
34, chemin des Colombettes, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
T +41 22 338 82 47 F +41 22 740 37 00 E arbiter.neutrals@wipo.int W www.wipo.int/amc
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Cyberspace in Asia and Pacific;
Founder, Cyberlaw Association, Internet’s first and pioneering association dedicated to Cyberlaw;
Member, Discussion Forum for Legal Aspects on the implementation of the IT Act, 2000 constituted
by the Controller of Certifying Authorities, Govt. of India;
Associated with the Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India on legal issues relating to
Cyberlaw and electronic governance;
Associated with the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC);
Secretary, The Global Standing Committee on Primary Prevention of Drug and Substance Abuse,
1999 till date.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BEFORE PRESENT POSITION
Practiced as an Advocate and Legal Consultant.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Member:
Membership Advisory Committee of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN);
Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF) of ICANN;
Supreme Court Bar Association;
Delhi High Court Bar Association.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Cyberlaw.
EXPERIENCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Consultant and Advisor to various companies and other entities.
EXPERIENCE WITH RESPECT TO DOMAIN NAMES
Handling Domain Name litigations and cases in India.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
Author
Cyberlaw In India;
Cyberlaw – The Indian Perspective;
Has written numerous articles on different issues of cyberlaw in various publications, local, national
and international.
Regular contributor to columns and media.
Writing a regular Sunday, Cyberlaw column entitled “Brief Cases” published in The Economic Times.
Speaker
Has been invited at various national and international conferences to speak on different issues of
Cyberlaw.
Speaker at India Internet World, 1998, 1999, 2000.
Speaker at Apricot, Singapore 1999.
Speaker at At Large Membership Committee meetings of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names & Numbers (ICANN) held in Singapore 1999 and Berlin 1999.
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Visiting faculty on Cyberlaw at National Police Academy, Hyderabad.
Visiting faculty at Indian Law Institute in its Cyberlaw course.
Speaker at UNESCO’s Second Asia & Pacific Regional meeting on Ethical, Legal and Societal
Challenges of Cyberspace, Beijing, China, 2000.
Speaker at the famed Engelberg Forum at Engelberg, Switzerland, 2001
Speaker at Second International Conference on Drug Abuse organized by the Colombo Plan in
Bangkok, 1999.
Speaker at UNDP meeting in Colombo, 1995.
Speaker at the Third International Conference on Aids in Asia and the Pacific at Chiangmai, Thailand
1995;
Has spoken extensively at various societies and organizations like Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing, Pune, National Law School, Bangalore, Faculty of Law, University of
Delhi, Delhi, I P University, Delhi, NASSCOM, Indo German Chambers of Commerce,
Confederation of Indian Industries, All India Management Association and many others.
EXPERIENCE IN COURT LITIGATION
Practising Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court since 1988;
Has handled various kinds of litigations including corporate, intellectual property rights, civil,
matrimonial, cyberlaw and domain name disputes.
EXPERIENCE IN ARBITRATION
Has handled various arbitration matters in Court and outside;
Founder President, Cyber Arbitration, an online system of alternative dispute resolution;
Legal Consultant on matters relating to Arbitration;
Presently arguing an important matter involving Arbitration in the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.
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ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE
SUMMARY TABLE
Administering Institution Role
Type
Name Number of Presiding Sole Co- Counsel
Arbitrations Arbitrator Arbitrator arbitrator
AAA
ICC NA
Internation
alArbitratio LCIA
ns
Ad Hoc
Others:
Number of cases:
Sub-total
Others 6 6
Domestic
Arbitrations
Number of cases:
sub-total 6 6
TOTAL
6 6
