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.
Chunilal Karsandas Thakker is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.
The Gujarat High Court is the High Court of the state of Gujarat. It was established on 1 May 1960 under the Bombay Re-organisation Act,1960 after the state of Gujarat split from Bombay State.
Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan is an Indian judge who has been the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He is a former Chief Justice of India. He was the first judge from Kerala to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His tenure lasting more than three years has been one of the longest in the Supreme Court of India. While being Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court,he was appointed as the Acting Governor of Gujarat from 16th January 1999 to 18th March 1999.In 2010,he was conferred with an honorary doctorate by Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Javed Iqbal;is the retired chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of Pakistan,in office from 11 October 2017 to 3 June 2022. He is also a retired Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore work in the Supreme Court and the State Courts to hear and determine disputes between litigants in civil cases and,in criminal matters,to determine the liability of accused persons and their sentences if they are convicted.
Lorie Skjerven Gildea is an American attorney and jurist serving as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. She served as an associate justice on the Court from 2006 to 2010 and as a district judge for Hennepin County in the Fourth Judicial District from 2005 to 2006.
Sir Hiralal Jekisundas Kania was the first Chief Justice of India. He served as the Chief Justice of India from 1950 to 1951. He died while serving in office in 1951.
Justice Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan (1919–2012) was an Indian statesman. He was the Chief Justice of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh High Courts,and Acting Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
Judicial independence is protected by Singapore's Constitution,statutes such as the State Courts Act and Supreme Court of Judicature Act,and the common law. Independence of the judiciary is the principle that the judiciary should be separated from legislative and executive power,and shielded from inappropriate pressure from these branches of government,and from private or partisan interests. It is crucial as it serves as a foundation for the rule of law and democracy.
Rameshchandra Amrut Mehta is a retired justice of the Gujarat High Court. During his fourteen-year tenure in the Gujarat High Court,he came to be known for his probity and sympathy for the poor. During the Morvi dam failure of 1979,the worst flood disaster of Independent India,he assisted Justice BK Mehta commission in the investigations... .
Umesh Chandra Banerjee was a Bengali Indian jurist,who served as the chief justice of the Hyderabad High Court in 1998. He had also served as a permanent judge of the Calcutta High Court and as a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Prafulla Chandra Pant is an Indian retired judge and author who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2014 to 2017. He also served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India from 2019 to 2021. Prior to his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of India,he had previously served as Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court at Shillong and as a judge of Uttarakhand High Court at Nainital.
Mandisa Muriel Lindelwa Maya Mlokoti is the first female South African Deputy Chief Justice. She is also the first female jurist who has served as President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA) since 26 May 2017 until 31 August 2022 and the first female chancellor of University of Mpumalanga since 1 July 2021. She had previously served as a judge in the Mthatha High Court,as a puisne judge of the SCA and as Deputy President of the SCA,as well as holding acting positions in various courts.
Joyce Kavuma,is a Ugandan lawyer and judge on the High Court of Uganda. She was appointed to that court by president Yoweri Museveni,on 8 February 2018.
J.N. Bhatt was an Indian Judge,educationist and Chief Justice of Patna High Court.
Azahar bin Mohamed is a retired Malaysian judge and lawyer who served as the 12th Chief Judge of the High Court of Malaya from August 2019 to his retirement in October 2022.
Tan Sri Datuk Amar Abang Iskandar bin Abang Hashim is a Malaysian lawyer and judge who serves as the twelfth President of the Court of Appeal. He previously served as the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak (CJSS).
Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya was an Indian Judge. he was the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. He is former Judge of Gujarat High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court.
