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James Dudley Elliott is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and sits as a judge of the Commercial Court. He was admitted to practice in 1988 after completing articles with Baker & McKenzie, signing the Bar Roll in 1990 and becoming Senior Counsel in 2004. He was appointed to the Trial Division of the Supreme Court on 26 March 2013. [1]
The Court of Appeal is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The Court of Appeal was created in 1875, and today comprises 39 Lord Justices of Appeal and Lady Justices of Appeal.
The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judicial body of India and the highest court of the Republic of India under the constitution. It is the most senior constitutional court, and has the power of judicial review. The chief justice of India is the head and chief judge of the Supreme Court, which consists of a maximum of 34 judges and has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer, was a Canadian lawyer, jurist and the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Frederick Moore Vinson was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. One of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government, Vinson served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938, as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1938 to 1943, as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1945 to 1946, and as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953.
Briggs v. Elliott, 342 U.S. 350 (1952), on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional by violating the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Following the Brown decision, the district court issued a decree that struck down the school segregation law in South Carolina as unconstitutional and required the state's schools to integrate. Harry and Eliza Briggs, Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, and Levi Pearson were awarded Congressional Gold Medals posthumously in 2003.
John Sopinka, was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, the first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed to the high court.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters, and hears the most serious criminal matters. Whilst the Supreme Court is the highest New South Wales court in the Australian court hierarchy, an appeal by special leave can be made to the High Court of Australia.
Jonathan Hugh Mance, Baron Mance, is a British judge who is a former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Richard Elliott Parker was a lawyer, soldier, judge and politician in Virginia. Parker served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the United States Senate, before later serving on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Anthony Philip Gilson Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley, PC,(born 11 August 1948 in St Albans, Hertfordshire) is a former English judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He was previously a Lord Justice of Appeal and Vice-President of the Criminal Division from 2009, following the retirement of Lord Justice Latham, to 9 April 2013.
The Supreme Court of Victoria is the highest court in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in 1852, it is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited and inherent jurisdiction within the state.
The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government.
Brian Francis Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, was a Northern Irish barrister and a senior judge who was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and then a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. At the time of his retirement, he was the longest serving Supreme Court Justice, and the last original member of the Court.
Robert John Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir, is a British judge who has been President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since January 2020. He was the principal judge in the Commercial Court in Scotland before being promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2008. He is an authority on human rights law in Scotland and elsewhere; he served as one of the UK's ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights. He was also a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.
Patrick Stewart Hodge, Lord Hodge, PC is a British lawyer, currently serving as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan is an Indian-born American lawyer and jurist serving as the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The United States Senate confirmed Srinivasan by a vote of 97–0 on May 23, 2013. Before his confirmation, Srinivasan served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and argued 25 cases before the United States Supreme Court. He has also lectured at Harvard Law School.
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana is an Indian judge who is serving as the 48th and current Chief Justice of India.
Byron Kosciusko Elliott was an American lawyer, judge, and jurist from the state of Indiana. Elliott served as the city attorney of Indianapolis, a judge of the Marion County criminal and superior court, and a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 3, 1881, to January 2, 1893.
Charles Andrew Ray was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 3, 1865 to January 3, 1871.
Jehu Tindle Elliott was an American lawyer, politician, businessman, and judge who served in the Indiana House of Representatives, the Indiana Senate and as a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 3, 1865 to January 3, 1871. He also served as the President of the Cincinnati, Logansport & Chicago Railway, securing funding for the construction of a railroad in Central Indiana.
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