HONORABLE Mr. Baidya Nath Upadhyay
JUSTICE
SUPREME COURT OF NEPAL
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A.  GENERAL INFORMATION
1.  Date of Birth: 15th Jan 1952
2. Gender: Male
3. Marital Status: Married
4. Nationality: Nepali

B.  ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

C. PROFESSIONAL CAREER

D. OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Practicing Advocate in Supreme Court of Nepal (Sept. 1978 - Nov. 1991)
• Executive Member of Supreme Court Bar Association (1980 - 81).
• Executive Secretary of Supreme Court Bar Association (1983 -84)
• Had run Legal Aid Program and several Legal Awareness Programs for needy and poor women through NGO like Women Legal Services Project and Services for unprivileged Section of Society.

E.TRAININGS AND PARTICIPATION:

• Participated in “Asian American Exchange Project Program concerning skill development to Plead and to examine witness in the law court,” from 17th Nov. to 22nd 1985, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Attended observation program for The Legal System of America, from 11th Oct. to 9th Nov. 1987 held in seven different States of U.S.A.
• Participated in the “Workshop on Training Mediators Program," from 2nd to 11th Nov. 1989, Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.
• Participated in the Conference of Judges and Advocates on the Women Development Program, Colombo, 17th to 21st Feb. 1993 Sri Lanka.
• Attended observation program “The Legal System of Norway”, from 21st September to 5th Oct. 1995, Norway.
• Attended observation program on Environmental Justice, from 23rd to 27th Sept. 2002, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• Attended Fifth Joint INSOL/UNCITRAL Multinational Judicial Colloquium, from 20th to 23rd Sept. 2003, Las Vegas, U.S.A.
• Attended observation program to see the functioning of National Judicial College/Academy, from 24 to 25th Sept. 2003, Reno, U.S.A.
• Attended Sixth Joint INSOL/UNCITRAL Multinational Judicial Colloquium, from 11th Mar. to 16th March, 2005, Sydney, Australia.
• Participated 3rd International Insolvency Colloquium from 14th to 16th Nov., 2005 U.N. building, Vienna, Austria.
• Attended "2nd South Asia Chief Justices Roundtable on Environmental Justice" Thimphu,  Bhutan, from 30 to 31 August, 2013.   
• Participated as a panelist in 1st Asia and Pacific International Colloquium on Environmental Rule of Law – Defining a new future for Environmental Justice, Governance and Law; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11- 12 December 2013.
• Participated in the Country Focus Seminar, in the field of case management, held at Tokyo, in Japan, from 1st Sept to 13th, Sept 2014.
• Participated the Legal System Observation Programme of Russia from 9th, Feb to 14th, Feb 2015.