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Supreme Court Of Bombay
This is a list of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay. It was in existence from 1824 to 1862, when the Bombay High Court was founded. The role of the judges of the court was to defend, on behalf of the British Crown, the interests of the people of Bombay against the East India Company. The Supreme Court was preceded by the Recorder's Court, established in 1798. List See also *List of 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 Jus ... Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay Bombay Supreme Court Bombay High Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay High Court
The High Court of Bombay is the High courts of India, high court of the States and union territories of India, states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (also known as Bombay), and is one of the oldest high courts in India. The High Court has circuit benches at Nagpur and Aurangabad in Maharashtra and at Porvorim in Goa. The first Chief Justice of India, Chief Justice, the Attorney General of India, Attorney General and the Solicitor General of India, Solicitor General of independent India were from this court. Since Independence of India, India's independence, 22 judges from this court have been elevated to the Supreme Court of India, Supreme Court and 8 have been appointed to the office of Chief Justice of India. The court has original jurisdiction in addition to its appellate jurisdiction. Judgments issued by this court can be appealed only to the Supreme Court of India. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Roberts Westropp
Sir Michael Roberts Westropp (29 June 1817 – 14 January 1890) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and former Advocate General of the Supreme Court, Bombay Presidency. Early life Westropp was born in 1817 in Ireland. He was the son of Henry Bruen Westropp, of the 7th Dragoon Guards and a magistrate of Cork, and Maria Wallis Armstrong. In 1838 he graduated from Trinity College Dublin, and became a barrister in 1840. Career He practiced law for more than 15 years in Dublin and then joined as a counsel in the Bombay Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court The High Court of Bombay is the High courts of India, high court of the States and union territories of India, states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily .... He also served as Member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1862-63. In 1856, Westropp became the Advocate-General of Bombay. After Sir Richard Couch he held the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande
Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande (11 August 1920 – 4 February 2013) was an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Career Deshpande was born in 1920. He passed LL.B. from University College of Law, under Osmania University. At first he was a practitioner of Hyderabad High Court but in 1957 he started practice in the Bombay High Court on Civil and Criminal matters. Deshpande became an Assistant Government Pleader in March 1961 and was appointed a Judge of the Bombay High Court on 11 June 1967. He worked as acting Chief Justice in 1980 and thereafter was permanently elevated as the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court on 12 January 1981 after Justice B. N. Deshmukh. After retirement Deshpande also worked as Maharashtra Lokayukta The State of Maharashtra is the first and pioneer State in India to introduce the concept of Lokayukta by enacting the Maharashtra Lokayukta and Upa-Lokayuktas Act, 1971 in view of the recommendations made by the Administrative Refo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala
Justice Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala (6 October 1916 – 2 May 1992) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1972 to 1978. He acted as the Governor of Maharashtra state twice in 1976 and 1977. Background Kantawala studied at the Cambay High School and Gujarat College in Ahmedabad. Later, he went to Elphinstone College and the Government Law College, Bombay. Kantawala graduated in mathematics with highest distinctions and was awarded the 'Daxina Fellowship' by the University of Bombay. He was a third generation lawyer in his family. Career Kantawala enrolled as an advocate on the Appellate side of the High Court of Bombay in 1941 and joined its Original side after clearing his Advocate's O.S. Examination two years later. B. J. Divan had also appeared alongside him there. S. T. Desai and Hormasji Maneckji Seervai were two of the examiners for this purpose. Kantawala worked in the chambers of Natwarlal H. Bhagwati who went on to become a Justice at the Supreme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani
Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani (29 February 1904 – 28 November 1965) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Early life Chainani was born to a Sindhi family in 1904 in British India. He first studied in Hyderabad, then was admitted to the D. J. Sindh College of Karachi. In 1925, he passed B.A. in Natural Science Tripos from Magdalene College, Cambridge, England. After passing the Indian Civil Service examinations, Chainani returned to India in 1927. He was first appointed Assistant Collector at Sholapur then at Nasik, Khandesh and Poona. Career He started his judicial career as an Assistant Judge at Poona in 1933 and was promoted as District and Sessions Judge at Sholapur. In 1935, he was appointed Secretary to the Bombay Legislative Council and Assistant Legal Remembrancer. In 1944, Chainani became the Joint Secretary of Home Department, Government of Bombay then transferred as Deputy Secretary to the Home Department of Government of India. He also worked as Revenue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahommedali Currim Chagla
Mahommedali Currim Chagla (30 September 1900 – 9 February 1981) was an Indian jurist, diplomat, and Cabinet Minister who served as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1947 to 1958. Early life and education Born on 30 September 1900 in Bombay to a well-off Gujarati Ismaili Khoja family, Chagla suffered a lonely childhood owing to his mother's death in 1905. His childhood was spent in their family mansion in near Nagdevi Street and Janjiker Lane, Khokha Bazar in Pydhonie. He later bought a mansion in Malabar Hill in 1934. He was educated at St. Xavier's High School and College in Bombay, after which he went on to study Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1918 to 1921, taking a BA in 1921 and MA in 1925. In 1922, he was admitted to the Bar of the Bombay High Court, where he worked with such illuminaries as Sir Jamshedji Kanga and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Career Chagla was appointed Professor of law at the Government Law College, Bombay in 1927, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Stone (judge)
Sir John Leonard Stone, OBE, QC (6 November 1896 – 3 January 1978) was the last British chief justice of the High Court of Bombay, serving from 30 September 1943 until 1948. Educated at Malvern College, he served in the First World War and in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. Called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1923, he joined the Lincoln's Inn Bar in 1931, becoming a Bencher of Gray's Inn in 1942 and its treasurer in 1956. He served in the British Home Guard during the Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ..., until 1943, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. He was appointed an OBE in the 1943 New Year Honours (citing his Home Guard service) and knighted in the 1943 Birthday Honours. He was appointed a King's Counsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Fisher Beaumont
Sir John William Fisher Beaumont, QC, PC (4 September 1877 – 8 February 1974) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Early life Beaumont was born in St Pancras, London in 1877. His father Edward Beaumont was also Bar-at-law. He was educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Beaumont passed B.A. with First Class in 1899 and received a scholarship. In 1901, he was called to the Bar by the Lincoln's Inn. Career After Sir Amberson Barrington Marten, Beaumont became the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court in 1930 and was in office till 1943, thus held that office for the longest period in the history of the High Court. He was knighted in the 1931 New Year Honours, and was several times called upon to act temporarily as a judge of the Federal Court of India. Beaumont worked there from 1942 to 1943. He was also appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He died in 1974 and was buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amberson Barrington Marten
Sir Amberson Barrington Marten (1870–1962) was a Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Career Amberson Barrington Marten, known by his middle name, was the elder son of Sir Alfred Marten. He passed M.A. and LL.D. and started practice in the Law Courts in England and in 1916 he came to Bombay in British India to fill the vacancy created by the death of Sir Dinshaw Davar. He was appointed Puisne Judge from 1916 to 1926. Barrington Marten had knowledge of English law, both principles and case laws. In 1926, he was elevated as the Chief Justice of The Bombay High Court after Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod (1866–1945) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Career Norman Cranstoun Macleod, known by his middle name, was the son of Robert Macleod, V of Cadboll. In 1890, he came to British India as a barrister a .... Barrington Marten was knighted in 1924 and retired in 1930. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Marten, Amberson Barrington 1870 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Cranstoun Macleod
Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod (1866–1945) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Career Norman Cranstoun Macleod, known by his middle name, was the son of Robert Macleod, V of Cadboll. In 1890, he came to British India as a barrister and started practice in Bombay. During this time, until 1898, he lived in a small house in Nana Chowk and had a small office first on Mint Road, then on Gunbow Street. In 1900, Jamshedji Kanga joined him as his first junior. In 1898, after he started having a roaring practice, he bought a house in Kemp's Corner and a large Chambers (where Yusuf Building, Flora Fountain currently stands), taking on several Indian juniors, including future Judges as Govind Magdavkar and Harilal Kania. However, in 1904 he joined the Higher Judicial Services of Bombay. He held various charges in judicial and administrative offices. Cranstoun Macleod worked as Chief Judge of the Small Causes Court, Taxing Master and Commissioner for taking accounts. Elevated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Scott
Sir Basil Scott (1859 — 1926) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Early life Sir Basil Scott was the son of Henry Scott educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He passed B.A. in 1882 and M.A. in 1886. He was called to Bar Inner Temple and came out as a barrister to practice in the Bombay High Court in 1884. Career Scott's uncle Basil Lang, was the Advocate General and leading in practitioner of the Bombay High Court. Scott became acting Advocate-General in 1899 and was also appointed permanent Advocate-General of Bombay. In 1906 he was elevated as Puisne Judge and after retirement of Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, he was appointed to the post of Chief Justice in 1908. It is known that some of his decisions were reversed by the Privy Council and he had to some extent, the prevailing prejudices of the Anglo-Indians of his time Scott was the member of the Rowlatt Commission and also the head of Special Tribunal under the Special Tribunal Act in 1910 to deal with the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Hugh Jenkins
Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, KCIE (22 December 1857 – 1 October 1928), was a British judge. He was the chief justice of the Calcutta and Bombay High Court, as well as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.Great Britain. India Office Family Jenkins was born in 1857 at The Priory, Cardigan. He was the younger son of solicitor Richard David Jenkins and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lewis. Career Jenkins passed from Cheltenham College to the University of Oxford, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1883. He became the chief justice of the Bombay High Court for ten years (1898–1908); thereafter, Jenkins was selected as a member of the Council of India. On 17 August 1899 he was knighted, and he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in the 1903 Durbar Honours. Between 1909 and 1915 he was the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court after Justice Francis William Maclean. He also served as District Grand Master of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
