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,and is one of the oldest high courts in India. The High Court has circuit benches at Nagpur and Aurangabad in Maharashtra and Porvorim,
M. Fathima Beevi was an Indian judge who was a justice of the Supreme Court of India. Appointed to the apex Court in 1989,she became the first female judge to be a part of the Supreme Court of India,and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any of the higher judiciaries in the country. On her retirement from the court,she served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission and later as the Governor of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu from 1997 to 2001. In 2023,she was honoured with Kerala Prabha Award,the second-highest honour given by the Government of Kerala. In the 2024 honours list,she was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College,commonly known by its former name Madras Law College,is a law school,located in Chennai (Madras),Tamil Nadu,India. It is also referred to as Government Law College or GLC,Chennai. It was established in 1891. It was renamed in 1990,as Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College,by the Government of Tamil Nadu in commemoration of the birth centenary of B. R. Ambedkar. In 1997,the Government of Tamil Nadu passed an Act which brought the college under the wings of the newly established Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University,splitting the college from the University of Madras.
Arunachalam R. Lakshmanan was a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Tamil Nadu are the most progressive among all states of India. Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to introduce a transgender welfare policy,wherein transgender individuals can access free gender affirmation surgery in government hospitals and various other benefits and rights. The state was also the first to ban forced sex-selective surgeries on intersex infants,and also the first state to include an amendment in its state police guidelines that expects officers to abstain from harassing the LGBTQIA+ community and its members. The state also became the first to ban conversion therapy as well as the first to introduce LGBTQIA+ issues in school curricula.
Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasanthakumar is from Palliyadi,Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu,India and was the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. He retired on 14 March 2017. He was appointed an additional judge of High Court of Madras in December 2005 and permanent judge on 20 April 2007. He took oath as the chief justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir in February 2015.
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.
Ramalingam Sudhakar is an Indian Judge. He is former Chief Justice of Manipur High Court. He is also former Acting Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Madras High Court. He was born on 14 February 1959 and hails from Panapakkam Village,Vellore District in Tamil Nadu. He was overlooked and V. Ramasubramanian was chosen over him as a Supreme Court Judge. The Central Government has approved the appointment of former Chief Justice of Manipur High Court,Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar as the president of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for a period of five years in October 28,2021. Justice Sudhakar has been appointed for a period of five years from the date of appointment or till he attains the age of 67 or until further orders,whichever is earlier.
Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale is the ex-Judicial Member of Lokpal Committee. He is the former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court and as a Judge of Hyderabad High Court,Karnataka High Court and Bombay High Court.
Aniruddha Bose is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is also the former chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court and judge of the Calcutta High Court.
Justice M Sathyanarayanan is Former Judge of the Madras High Court. He was the third judge chosen to deliver the verdict in the Tamil Nadu MLA disqualification case.
M. Karpaga Vinayagam is an Indian judge,Tamil scholar and former Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.
Darmar Murugesan is a former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. He has occupied many key posts in the Judiciary of India. He was elevated as a Judge of the Madras High Court from the Bar. He had formerly occupied the post of Member National Human Rights Commission of India.
Justice Ratnavel Pandian Subbiah is a sitting Judge of the Charted High Court of Madras. Subbiah is the Executive Chairman for the Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority. He was elevated as a Judge of High Court of Madras on 24 March 2008.
The High Court of Judicature at Madras is a High Court located in Chennai,India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is one of the oldest high courts of India along with Calcutta High Court in Kolkata and Bombay High Court in Mumbai. The Madras High Court is one of four charter high courts of colonial India established in the four Presidency Towns of Madras,Bombay,Allahabad and Calcutta by letters patent granted by Queen Victoria,dated 26 June 1862. It exercises original jurisdiction over the city of Chennai,as well as extraordinary original jurisdiction,civil and criminal,under the letters patent and special original jurisdiction for the issue of writs under the Constitution of India. Covering 107 acres,the court complex is one of the largest in the world,second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The four-storey administrative building attracts hundreds of litigants every day.
Honorable Thiru. C. V. Karthikeyan is a sitting Judge of the Madras High Court. He is one of the Members of the Board of Governors of the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy.
Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam was a former Chief Justice of Madras High Court and Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Ashok Chhotelal Agarwal was an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Madras High Court.
G. R. Swaminathan is an Indian judge of the Madras High Court.
