Dr. Gopinath N. Shenoy is a medico-legal consultant who exclusively appears for doctors in consumer courts and medical councils all over India. He was an honorary Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the K. J. Somaiya Hospital and Medical College, Mumbai and the President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Bombay (CPS). He has over 14 original research papers and three books to his credit. He has been awarded a number of prizes by the legal fraternity, prominent amongst them being the prestigious ‘Bar Council Silver Jubilee Prize’ and the ‘Sir Chimanlal Setalvad Golden Jubilee Prize’ awarded by the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Award was bestowed upon him by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust, New Delhi. He is a post-graduate tutor of IPC and CPA, and examiner in law (LLM and PhD) Bombay University. He was a Judge of the Consumer Court Mumbai, Govt. of Maharashtra, India.