
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
Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...
. He passed B.A. in 1882 and M.A. in 1886. He was called to Bar
Inner Temple
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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
The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the 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 (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the ...
. Scott became acting Advocate-General in 1899 and was also appointed permanent
Advocate-General of Bombay
The Advocate-General of Bombay was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Bombay Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1668 to 1947. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the East India Company, th ...
. 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 case against
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (), Marathi pronunciation: �inaːjək saːʋəɾkəɾ also commonly known as Veer Savarkar (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), was an Indian politician, activist, and writer.
Savarkar developed the Hindu nationa ...
.
References
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1859 births
1926 deaths
Knights Bachelor
British India judges
20th-century English judges
Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court
People from Bombay Presidency
British people in colonial India