The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India. It is the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India. It also has the power of judicial review. The Supreme Court,which consists of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of fellow 33 judges,has extensive powers in the form of original,appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
Leila Seth was an Indian judge who served as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court,Himachal Pradesh High Court,on 5 August 1991. She was also the first woman to be designated as a senior counsel by the Supreme Court of India. She sat on a number of enquiry commissions,including one into the death of 'Biscuit Baron' Rajan Pillai,and was also a part of the three-member bench of the Justice Verma Committee that was established to overhaul India's rape laws in the aftermath of the infamous 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. She was a member of the 15th Law Commission of India from 1997 to 2000,and was responsible for the amendments to the Hindu Succession Act that gave equal rights to daughters in joint family property.
The Faculty of Law,University of Delhi is the law department of the University of Delhi. It has the unique distinction of producing the largest number of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India,with many notable alumni's from various fields.
Makhdoom Ali Khan,is a Pakistani lawyer who is a Senior Advocate Supreme Court. Khan has held several positions,including Attorney General of Pakistan,chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council,member of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan,board member of the Federal Judicial Academy of Pakistan and of the Sindh Judicial Academy.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR),or external dispute resolution (EDR),typically denotes a wide range of dispute resolution processes and techniques that parties can use to settle disputes with the help of a third party. They are used for disagreeing parties who cannot come to an agreement short of litigation. However,ADR is also increasingly being adopted as a tool to help settle disputes within the court system.
Patibandla. Chandrasekhara Rao was an Indian jurist. He was from Veerullapadu Village Guntur-Krishna District region of coastal Andhra Pradesh of what was then called Madras Presidency.
Gopal Subramanium is an Indian lawyer,international arbitrator,academic and Senior Advocate who practices primarily in the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court. He served as the Solicitor General of India 2009–2011 and Additional Solicitor General of India 2005–2009. He served as Chairman of the Bar Council of India 2010–2011.
Gyan Sudha Misra is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Misra was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 30 April 2010. She has passed several landmarks and notable judgments in the Supreme Court of India including judgments on conflict of interest in the Srinivasan-BCCI matter,landmark euthanasia judgment - Aruna shaunbaug matter,and the Delhi Uphaar fire tragedy dissenting judgment holding the management liable for colossal loss of human lives and directing them to pay heavy compensation to be used for social causes like building trauma centre.
Dalveer Bhandari is an Indian jurist. He is currently one of the judges of the International Court of Justice. He is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Bombay High Court,he was also a judge of the Delhi High Court.
Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India;he retired on 16 June 2023. He is former chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. Before his appointment as chief justice of the High Court of Uttarakhand on 31 July 2014,he had served as a judge of the Kerala High Court for more than nine years.
Arjan Kumar Sikri is an eminent jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on 12 April 2013. Earlier,he had served as the chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He retired as senior most puisne judge of Supreme Court of India on 6 March 2019.
Uday Umesh Lalit is an Indian lawyer and former Supreme Court Judge,who served as the 49th Chief Justice of India. Previously,he has served as a judge of Supreme Court of India. Prior to his elevation as a judge of the supreme court,he practised as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit is one of the eleven senior counsels who have been directly elevated to the Supreme Court. He is currently ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’at Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies,Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay and Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.
Karuna Nundy is an Indian lawyer and Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India,designated as a Senior Advocate in 2024. She is qualified to practice in both India and New York. Her notable cases include enforcing blockchain regulations on behalf of Paytm against telecom companies,securing damages for a disability rights activist against SpiceJet,and addressing issues related to platform liability and online speech restrictions. She has also worked on efforts to provide safe water to Bhopal gas disaster victims. Her practice areas include constitutional law,commercial litigation,arbitration,intellectual property,technology law,and international law. She also serves as a mediator at the Supreme Court Mediation Centre.
Deepak Verma is an Indian jurist and a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. His career in the Indian judiciary includes serving as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court,acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka,and holding the position of a judge in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh. After retiring from the Supreme Court,Justice Verma has become known for his work as an international arbitrator and mediator,and he has acted as an expert on matters of Indian law in several high profile cases before foreign courts and international tribunals including the Enrica Lexie incident and the multi-billion dollar Vijay Mallya case. He has also assumed the role of a sports ombudsman in India. Additionally,he has chaired significant High-Powered Judicial Committees appointed by the High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He also serves as the chairperson and member of the advisory board of several distinguished non-profits,educational institutions and universities in India.
Justice Gita Mittal is a retired Indian judge. She is the former Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and the first woman judge to serve in that capacity. She has also served as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court while she was serving as a Judge of the Delhi High Court.
Indira Banerjee is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and the eighth female judge in history of Supreme Court. Previously,she served as chief justice of the Madras High Court,the second woman to hold the position in India.
Om Prakash Malhotra also known as O.P. Malhotra was a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India,and a distinguished author who brought out the treatise on the Law of Industrial Disputes and authored commentary on the Law &Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation.
Neeru Chadha is an Indian jurist who serves as a member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). She previously served in various capacities for the Indian government's external affairs ministry including as the additional secretary and legal adviser heading its legal and treaties division.
S. Muralidhar is an Indian lawyer and a former Judge. He was the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and a Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Delhi High Court. He has been designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India and presently pracising before the Supreme Court of India.
Aruna Suresh is a former judge of the Orissa High Court in India. She also served at the Delhi High Court. She gained public attention after an association of lawyers boycotted her courtroom in Odisha,following her request to a senior counsel to refrain from intervening in a case where he was not involved.
