Shri. Pratinidhi Shrinivasacharya, former Judge, was born on 16th July, 1921. He graduated from the prestigious Nizam’s College, Hyderabad, and went on to study law at Ferguson Law College, Pune. He had the distinction of becoming the first lawyer from his hometown, Surpur (Shorapur), in the then Gulbarga district and presently in Yadgir district where he set-up his practice.
He was persuaded by one of the judges to join judiciary. He was first appointed as Magistrate of Kinvut and later Nanded, both presently in Maharashtra state. He was then transferred as the Magistrate of Secundrabad Deccan. Thereafter, he served in several capacities in various places in Nizam’s state and opted for Karnataka after State reorganization in the year 1956. He served in various districts and retired as the Judge of Labour Court from Bengaluru. As an Advocate, he maintained a high degree of ethical standards and tried his best to ensure that the parties in the lis got justice. One such example is in a motor vehicle case, even though he had won, he successfully persuaded his client to pay some compensation to the losing party as he strongly believed that the losing party was entitled for compensation. Although mediation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolutions are now brought in the Civil Procedure Code, and applied in all courts in India and many countries abroad, as a Judge, he had the vision and forethought to adopt mediation as a mode to settle the disputes and resolved many cases.
