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Dipankar Datta
Dipankar Datta (born 9 February 1965) is an Indian jurist who is currently serving as the judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is the former chief justice of the Bombay High Court and a judge of the Calcutta High Court. Early life and education Datta was born in 1965 in a Bengali family. He came from a family with legal background. His father late Salil Kumar Datta, was a former Judge of the Calcutta High Court. His brother in law Justice Amitava Roy, is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Datta acquired his Bachelor of Laws from the Hazra Law College, University of Calcutta. He was in the first batch of 5 years Law course in the year 1989. Career After completing his Bachelor of Laws he was enrolled as an advocate on 16 November 1989. He started practising at the High Court at Calcutta and worked as a state panel lawyer also. He also practised at the Supreme Court of India and other High Courts at other states in India. He has specialized in Constitutional ...
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Justice Dipankar Datta
In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the ''Institutes (Justinian), Institutes'' of Justinian I, Justinian, a 6th-century codification of Roman law, where justice is defined as "the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due". A society where justice has been achieved would be one in which individuals receive what they "deserve". The interpretation of what "deserve" means draws on a variety of fields and philosophical branches including ethics, rationality, law, religion, and fairness. The state may pursue justice by operating courts and enforcing their rulings. History Early Western theories of justice were developed in part by Ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato in his work ''Republic (Plato), The Republic'', and Aristotle, in his ''Nicomachean Ethics'' and ''Politics (Aristotle), Politics'' ...
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Hazra Law College
The Department of Law, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, formerly University College of Law, is a faculty in the University of Calcutta, founded in 1909, colloquially referred to as Hazra Law College, which offers undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate and post doctorate courses. The Faculty oversees fifteen affiliated Law schools of the University. History The college was established by the then Vice Chancellor of University of Calcutta Ashutosh Mukherjee in 1909. Prior to 1983, the Department of Law was known as the University College of Law. Sir Asutosh wanted it to be a model center of legal education. In a meeting held on 4 July 1908, the Senate recommended the proposal to establish University Law College in Kolkata. Sir Surendranath Banerjee and Babu Mahendranath Roy were also present at the meeting, which was presided by Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser, the Rector of the University. The resolution was passed that a college is to be established for the prom ...
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Chief Justices Of The Bombay High Court
This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices. List Bombay High Court was established on under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 47 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Alok Aradhe who is serving from . {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="92%" !Sr. No. !Name !Date of Appointment !Date of Retirement !Tenure !Remarks , - ! colspan="6" , Pre Independence , - !1 , Matthew Richard Sausse , , , , , - !2 , Richard Couch (judge), Richard Couch , , , , Transferred to Calcutta High Court, Calcutta as Chief justice, CJ , - !3 , Michael Roberts Westropp , , , , , - !4 , Charles Sargent (judge), Charles Sargent , , , , , - !5 , Charles Frederick Farran , , , , , - !6 , Louis Addin Kershaw , , , , , - !7 , Lawrence Hugh Jenkins , , , , Transferred to Calcutta High Court, Calcutta as Chief justice ...
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21st-century Indian Lawyers
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Judges Of The Calcutta High Court
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1965 Births
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Bench (law)
Bench used in a legal context can have several meanings. First, it can simply indicate the location in a courtroom where a judge sits. Second, the term bench is a metonym used to describe members of the judiciary collectively, or the judges of a particular court, such as the King's Bench or the Common Bench in England and Wales, or the federal bench in the United States. Third, the term is used to differentiate judges, who are referred to as "the bench", from attorneys or barristers, who are referred to as " the bar". The phrase "bench and bar" denotes all judges and lawyers collectively. The term "full bench" is used when all the judges of a certain court sit together to hear a case, as in the phrase "before the full bench", which is also referred to as . The historical roots of the term come from judges formerly having sat on long seats or benches (freestanding or against a wall) when presiding over a court. The bench is usually an elevated desk area that allows a ju ...
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State Of West Bengal
West Bengal (; Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is 99,723,000. West Bengal is the fourth-most populous and thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the third-largest metropolis, and seventh largest city by population in India. West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, the coastal Sundarbans and the Bay of Bengal. The state's main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority. Th ...
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