C. K. Thakker | |
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Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court | |
In office 5 May 2000 –30 December 2001 | |
Chief Justice of Bombay High Court | |
In office 31 December 2001 –2004 | |
Judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
In office 7 June 2004 –10 November 2008 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Chunilal Karsandas Thakker 10 November 1943 |
Alma mater | Gujarat University |
Chunilal Karsandas Thakker (also Thakkar) (born 10 November 1943) [1] is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. [2]
Thakker was born 10 November 1943,Mander near Porbandar,Gujarat,India. After taking primary education at Mander and Madhavpur,Thakker graduated from a college in Junagadh and obtained a Bachelor of Laws from a law college in Jamnagar. He also obtained a Master of Laws from Gujarat University,and began practicing from 1968 in the Gujarat High Court.
He was appointed part-time lecturer in law in L.A. Shah Law College,Ahmedabad,in 1970 and continued as such until he was elevated as a judge of the Gujarat High Court on 21 June 1990. He was promoted to Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, [3] Shimla on 5 May 2000 and transferred as the Chief Justice of High Court of Judicature at Mumbai on 31 December 2001. [4] [5]
Thakker was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 7 June 2004. [1] He was also acting governor of the State of Maharashtra from July to October 2002. [6] [7]
Thakkar has written several law books such as Lectures on Administrative Law (Students' Edition) and Code of Civil Procedure. [8] [9] His book on the Code of Civil Procedure,1908 published under the pen name of C.K. Takwani has remained a standard textbook for law students in India for the past 25 years. He revised Law of Writs by V.G. Ramachandran. [10]