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 Panaji,the capital of Goa.
Adarsh Sein Anand was the 29th Chief Justice of India,serving from 10 October 1998 to 31 October 2001.
Basappa Danappa Jatti was the fifth vice president of India,serving from 1974 to 1979. He was the acting president of India from 11 February to 25 July 1977. He also served as the chief minister of Karnataka. Jatti rose from a being a Municipality member to India's second-highest office during a five-decade-long chequered political career.
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served over a period of 19 years in the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge,as chief justice of the Patna High Court,Judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd Chief Justice of India.
The High Court of Karnataka is the High Court of the Indian state of Karnataka and thus its highest judicial authority. The court's principal bench is located in Bengaluru,the capital city of Karnataka,with additional benches in Hubballi-Dharwada and Kalaburagi. It was previously called the High Court of Mysore. In Bengaluru,the High Court functions out of a red-painted brick building known as the Attara Kacheri,located opposite the Vidhana Soudha,the seat of the Karnataka Legislature.
Mohammadali Carim Chagla was an Indian jurist,diplomat,and Cabinet Minister who served as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1947 to 1958.
The Government Law College,Mumbai,,India,founded in 1855,is the oldest law school in Asia. The college,affiliated to the University of Mumbai,is run by the Government of Maharashtra.
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati was the 17th Chief Justice of India,serving from 12 July 1985 until his retirement on 20 December 1986. He introduced the concepts of public interest litigation and absolute liability in India,and for this reason is held,along with Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer,to be a pioneer of judicial activism in the country. He is the longest-served supreme court judge in India.
Fali Sam Nariman was an Indian jurist. He was a senior advocate to the Supreme Court of India from 1971 and was the President of the Bar Association of India from 1991 to 2010. Nariman was an internationally recognised jurist on international arbitration. He was honoured with the 19th Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration 2018. He was one of India's most distinguished constitutional lawyers and argued several leading cases. He was the Additional Solicitor General of India from May 1972 to June 1975.
Sarosh Homi Kapadia was the 38th Chief Justice of India. He was the first chief justice born in independent India.
Dalveer Bhandari 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.
K. Sukumaran is an Indian lawyer who served as a judge in the high courts of Kerala and Mumbai in India. He has led several inquiries into human rights abuses. He is the author of several books on legal topics.
Hosbet Suresh was a judge of the Bombay High Court who led a number of commissions that investigated violations of human rights.
Dipankar Datta is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is the former chief justice of the Bombay High Court and a judge of the Calcutta High Court.
Justice Abhay Mahadeo Thipsay was a Judge at the Bombay High Court and the Allahabad High Court. He started his career as an advocate in 1979 and was appointed as Metropolitan Magistrate in the Judicial Service of the State of Maharashtra in 1987. From 2011 to 2016,he was a Judge at the High Court of Bombay where he handled civil suits and criminal trials,several of which were complex,lengthy and sensitive.
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,he practised as a senior counsel 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.
M. L. Tahaliyani is the Lokayukta of Maharashtra and is a retired Judge of the Bombay High Court. Justice Tahaliyani presided over high-profile cases including the 2008 Mumbai attacks and the Adarsh Housing Society scam.
Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani is a former Indian judge and prosecutor,who last served as the chief justice of the Madras High Court. Previously,as a judge of the Bombay High Court,she notably upheld the conviction of several persons for the rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during the 2002 Gujarat riots,chastising investigative authorities for their inaction in the matter,and also refused parole for those convicted in the 1993 Bombay bombings. She retired in 2019,after refusing to accept a controversial transfer from the Madras High Court to the Meghalaya High Court.
