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| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable|Hon'ble Chief Justice (Retd.)]]<br />
| name = Kantilal Thakoredas Desai<br />
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| office = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Gujarat High Court|2nd Chief Justice]] of [[Gujarat High Court]]<br />
| term_start = 26 January 1961<br />
| term_end = 22 May 1963<br />
| nominator = [[B. P. Sinha]]<br />
| appointer = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
| predecessor = [[S. T. Desai|Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai]]<br />
| successor = [[Jaishanker Manilal Shelat]]<br />
| office1 = [[Judge]] of [[Gujarat High Court]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1 May 1960<br />
| term_end1 = 25 January 1961<br />
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| appointer1 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
| office2 = [[Judge]] of [[Bombay High Court]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1957<br />
| term_end2 = 30 April 1960<br />
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| appointer2 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1903|05|01}}<br />
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|1|29|1903|5|1|df=y}}<br />
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| children = [[Sujata Manohar]]<br />
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'''Kantilal Thakoredas Desai''' (1 May 1903 - 29 January 1977) was an Indian judge and the [[Chief Justice of Gujarat|second Chief Justice]] of the [[High Court of Gujarat]], from January 1961 till May 1963.<ref name="GujaratHC">{{Cite web |url=http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in/cjjfull?jid=401 |title=High Court of Gujarat: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kantilal Thakoredas Desai |website=gujarathighcourt.nic.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kantawala |first=Ramanlal Maneklal |author-link=Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala |date=1977-02-01 |title=Reference to Late Shri K. T. Desai by The Hon'ble The Chief Justice |url=http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/references/DesaiKT.pdf}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Desai studied at [[Bombay]]. He enrolled as an [[Advocate]] at the [[High Court of Bombay]] in 1930. His specialization was in commercial law. He was brought to the [[Bench (law)|Bench]] of the court in 1957. When the [[state of Bombay]] was bifurcated in 1960, Desai was appointed a Judge at the new Gujarat High Court.<ref name="GujaratHC"/><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
The Bombay High Court holds an annual "Justice K. T. Desai Memorial Lecture" in his honour. Previous speakers in this series include [[Ruma Pal]], [[Ashok Desai]] (2013), [[Ramesh Chandra Lahoti]] (2014), [[Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill]] (2015) and [[Rohinton Fali Nariman]] (2016).<ref name="SikkimUniversity">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cus.ac.in/index.php/en/governance/statutory-officers/the-chancellor |title=Chancellor |website=[[Sikkim University]] |language=en-gb |access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref><ref name="HerneHillLecture">{{Cite web |url=http://www.odysseustrust.org/India/IndiaLectureOctober2015.pdf |title=The Justice KT Desai Memorial Lecture: Time for a Penal Code Fit for India |author=[[Lord Lester of Herne Hill]] [[Queen's Counsel|QC]] |date=2015-10-06 |website=www.odysseustrust.org |access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref><ref name="TheHindu">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-constitution-refreshed/article19562577.ece |title=The Constitution, refreshed |last=Parthasarathy |first=Suhrith |date=2017-08-26 |website=[[The Hindu]] |language=en-IN |access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref><br />
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[[Sujata Manohar]], formerly a judge at the [[Supreme Court of India]], is his daughter.<ref name="HerneHillLecture" /><br />
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