Jagannath Kaushal (23 April 1915 – 31 May 2001) was an Indian National Congress politician and Law Minister in the Government of India from 1982 to 1985.
Though he was selected as the District and Sessions Judge in 1947, he resigned from the post in 1949 after the State was merged with PEPSU, and returned to legal practice.
In 1966, he was appointed the Additional Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, but he returned to the Bar nine months after resigning from the post.
During that period, he had the opportunity of conducting Indira Gandhi’s election petition in the Supreme Court when she was unseated.
A member of the Syndicate of Panjab University for over 25 years, Kaushal was the chairman of the Privileges Committee of the Lok Sabha.