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Vinod Kumar Bali was the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi and was the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court.

Career

After completing his graduation in Law from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1967 he started practicing in District Courts, Karnal in the same year and shifted to the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in 1973. He practiced on all subjects of law and specialized in Constitutional, Service, Labour and Industrial Disputes and Criminal Laws. He was designated as Senior Advocate at the age of 42 in 1987.

In the year 1991 he was elevated to Punjab and Haryana High Court and as a judge he has authored several Full Bench Judgments and decided several hundred criminal cases besides deciding Constitutional, Civil, Labour and Industrial matters. He served as the Chairman of Legal Services Authority, Haryana for a term of eight years. In the year 2005 he was transferred to Rajasthan High Court and served as the Chairman of Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority from 6 September 2006.

He was sworn in as Chief Justice, High Court of Kerala on 22 January 2006. During his tenure of one year as Chief Justice, he decided several constitutional matters of all the branches of law. During his tenure as Chief Justice, 120 Full Bench cases pending in Kerala High Court were disposed of. For the first time in the history of Kerala High Court, arrears of the cases were reduced by 15000 in one year. He retired on 24 January 2007 on attaining the age of superannuation.

Appointed as Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal, he assumed the office on 8 March 2007.