who appointed the judges of supreme court of india
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal


a judge soon after. On 3 February 1999, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. In less than a year, he was appointed as a judge, Supreme Court of India. Being the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court of India at the time, Sabharwal was appointed as the Chief Justice of India to succeed Mr. R.C. Lahoti who was retiring on 31 October 2005. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice by the President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam on 1 November 2005
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, jury ... E-courts in India" As per the government,held by the court in the Three Judges Cases – (1982, 1993, 1998), a judge is appointed to the Supreme Court and the High Courts by the President of India from a list of names recommended by the "collegium"  – a closed group of the Chief Justice of India and the senior-most judges of the Supreme Court, for appointments to the Supreme Court, and they, together with the Chief Justice of a High Court
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Virendra Singh (Lokayukta)


Virendra Singh (Lokayukta) was appointed lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh on 16 December 2015 by Supreme Court of India He is first Lokayukta of India who is appointed by Supreme Court of India. He is successor of Justice N.K. Mehrotra The Supreme Court exercises its right under Article 142 of the Constitution to make the appointment of Lokayukta . After the intervention of the Supreme Court, Virendra's appointed was replaced by retired judge Sanjay Mishra after the state government was accused of concealing facts regarding the appointed and objections raised by chief justice of Allahabad High
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Chokkalingam Nagappan


He was then further elevated as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court and sworn in on 27.02 2013. He was appointed as a Judge of The Supreme Court of India and sworn in on 19.09.2013. Nagappan who held a relatively short tenure retired as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 03.10.2016. A three judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court, comprising Nagappan, Jasti Chelameswar, and Sharad Arvind Bobde ratified an earlier order of the Supreme Court and clarified that no Indian citizen without an Aadhaar card can be deprived
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Supreme Court of India


) when required to settle fundamental questions of law. A bench may refer a case before it to a larger bench, should the need arise. A citizen of India not exceeding 65 years age as per of the constitution who has been is eligible to be recommended for appointment, a judge of the supreme court. In practice, judges of the supreme court have been selected so far, mostly from amongst judges of the high courts. Barely seven justices—S. M. Sikri, S. Chandra Roy, Kuldip Singh, Santosh Hegde
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Supreme Court of India


, R. F. Nariman, U. U. Lalit, L. Nageswara Rao and Indu Malhotra—have been appointed to the supreme court directly from the bar (i.e. who were practising advocates). The Supreme Court saw its first woman judge when Justice M. Fathima Beevi was sworn into office in 1989. The seventh and the most recent woman judge in the court is Justice Indu Malhotra. In 1968, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah became the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. In 2000, Justice K. G. Balakrishnan became the first judge from the "
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P. N. Bhagwati


practicing at the Bombay High Court. In July 1960, he was appointed a judge of the Gujarat High Court. In September 1967, he was appointed the Chief Justice of that court. On two occasions, he acted temporarily as Governor of Gujarat (7 December 1967 to 25 December 1967 and 17 March 1973 to 3 April 1973 In July 1973, he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. In August 1985, he became Chief Justice of India. As a supreme court judge, Bhagwati introduced the concepts
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P. B. Sawant


P. B. Sawant (born 30 June 1930) is a former Supreme Court judge in India. After obtaining his law degree (LL.B.) from Bombay University, Sawant started practicing as an advocate initially at the Bombay High Court and later at Supreme Court of India. In 1973 he was appointed Judge of the Bombay High Court; among his notable acts was an inquiry on the Air-India aircraft crash in June, 1982. He was appointed justice in the Supreme Court in 1989. Since his retirement in 1995, he has
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Mohan Shantanagoudar


Mohan Mallikarjunagouda Shantanagoudar (born 5 May 1958 in Chikkerur, Haveri District, Karnataka) is an Indian Judge. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme court of India on 17 February 2017. He has also served as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court before his elevation to the Supreme Court of India. He initially practiced at the Karnataka High Court as an advocate, later appointed as the Additional Judge in 2003, and elevated as a permanent judge of the Karnataka High Court on 29 September 2004. He was
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M. Jagannadha Rao


paternal uncle Justice M. Krishna Rao. He was appointed as Additional Judge of High Court of Andhra Pradesh on 29 September 1982 and as Permanent Judge on 29 November 1982. He was appointed as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court in August 1991, as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on March 1994 and as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 23 March 1997. He has retired as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 2 December 2000. His son Justice M. S. Ramachandra Rao is currently a Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High
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Chief Justice of India


other judges conventionally, the outgoing CJI recommends the name of the senior-most judge (i.e. by date of appointment to the Supreme Court) for appointment by the President of India, as his successor. Article 124(4) of Constitution of India lays down the procedure for removal of a Judge of Supreme Court which is applicable to Chief Justice as well. Once appointed, the Chief Justice remains in the office until the age of 65 years. He can be removed only through a process of impeachment by Parliament as follows: The
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Attorney General of India


The Attorney General for India is the Indian government's chief legal advisor, and is primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He can be said to be the lawyer from government's side. He is appointed by the President of India under Article 76(1) of the Constitution and holds office during the pleasure of the President. He must be a person qualified to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court (He must have been a judge of some high court for five years or an advocate of some high court
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Chief Justice of India


The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the head of the judiciary of India and the Supreme Court of India. The CJI also heads their administrative functions. As head of the supreme court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In accordance with Article 145 of the Constitution of India and the Supreme Court Rules of Procedure of 1966, the Chief Justice allocates all work to the other judges who are bound to refer the matter back to
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India and the United Nations


addition, 3 member have also served as Judges sitting ad hoc. Now India's Supreme Court Justice 'Justice: Dalveer Bhandari' has been appointed as the judge in International Court of Justice for a second term. Justice Dalveer Bhandari has studied at JNVU Jodhpur and served as judge in both high court and The Supreme Court in India. In November 2016, Vinod Rai was appointed as Chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors and Shashi Kant Sharma as Member of the United Nations Board of Auditor General. Joint Inspection Unit is the
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Vineet Saran


Vineet Saran is a Judge of Supreme Court of India. He was earlier the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court. On 7 August 2018 he was appointed as a Judge of Supreme Court of India. Justice Vineet Saran is B.A., L.L.B.. He was born on 11 May 1957. He was enrolled as an Advocate on 28 July 1980. He practised at the Allahabad High Court in all matters. He was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Allahabad High Court on 14 February 2002. He was transferred to Karnataka High Court
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Karnataka Lokayukta


and its head bearing the same names), who either held the office of a Judge of the Supreme Court of India or that of the Chief Justice of a High Court of India. The Act was amended in 2015, according to which any person who has held the post of judge of the High court for a period of ten years can be appointed as Lokayukta and five years in case of Upa Lokayukta. The Lokayukta is appointed by the Governor of Karnataka on advice of Chief Minister of Karnataka in consultation with the Chief
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Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah


years. In October 1959, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in December 1970. On 28 May 1977, the home ministry appointed Justice J. C. Shah, who was then a retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India to head the Shah Commission. It was set up by the central government under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 to probe excesses committed during the Emergency in India. The Shah commission was required to look "into excesses, malpractices and
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Judiciary of India


that our judiciary must both be independent of the executive and must also be competent in itself.” Finally, the constitution stated that “Every Judge of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal after consultation with such of the Judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Courts in the States as the President may deem necessary for the purpose,” given that “in the case of appointment of a Judge other than the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice of India shall always be
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S. Rajendra Babu


S. Rajendra Babu was the 34th chief Justice of India. He also served as the chairperson of National Human Rights Commission of India. S. Rajendra Babu was born in Bangalore, on 1 June 1939. He pursued his LLB from Raja Lakhamagouda Law College, Belgaum Karnataka University. Babu was appointed permanent Judge of the Karnataka High Court in February 1988. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 25 September 1997. On 2 May 2004, as the senior-most Puisne judge of the supreme court,
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List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India


The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its inception on 28 January 1950. A total of 212 judges have served in the court (Excluding sitting judges). The list has been arranged on the basis of date of retirement with Chief Justices mentioned first. ! S.no. !Portrait ! class="sortable" |Name of the Justice !Date of appointment ! class="sortable" | Date of appointment as CJI !Date of retirement !Tenure Length !Tenure Length as CJI ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 !
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Supreme Court of India


appointment. A judge of the supreme court draws a salary of per month—equivalent to the most-senior civil servant of the Indian government, Cabinet Secretary of India—while the chief justice earns per month. As Per Article 124 and third Schedule of the constitution, the chief justice (or a judge) of the Supreme Court of India is required to make and subscribe in the presence of the president an oath or affirmation that he/she Per of the constitution, President can remove a judge on proved misbehaviour or
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Shanti Swaroop Dhavan


1967 and was appointed a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. Dhavan was then appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom for 1968-'69. He had two sons Ravi Dhavan who was Judge of the High Courts of Allahabad and Patna, and Rajeev Dhavan who js a famous Senior Advocage practicing in Supreme Court of India. He was Governor of West Bengal from 19 September 1969 to 21 August 1971. Dhavan's gubernatorial tenure was marked by the imposition of two stints of President's rule following the fall of the United Front government
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Supreme Court of India


B. R. Ambedkar clarified as given below in the Constituent Assembly debates on high lighting its inevitable implementation. As per the constitution, as held by the court in the Three Judges Cases – (1982, 1993, 1998), a judge is appointed to the supreme court by the president on the recommendation of the "collegium"  — a closed group of the Chief Justice of India, the four most senior judges of the court and the senior-most judge hailing from the high court of a prospective appointee. This has resulted
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Sharad Arvind Bobde


Court of India and became Senior Advocate in 1998. Bobde was appointed as an additional judge of Bombay High Court on 29 March 2000. Bobde joined as Chief Justice of Madhya pradesh High Court on 16 October 2012. Bobde was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 12 April 2013. A three judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court, comprising Bobde, Jasti Chelameswar, and Chokkalingam Nagappan, ratified an earlier order of the Supreme Court and clarified that no Indian citizen without an Aadhaar card can be deprived of
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A. N. Ray


Allahabad High Court. In August 1969, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in April 1973. His appointment as CJI came as a reward from the then PM Indira Gandhi for his dissenting opinion in the Keshavanand Bharti case which gave rise to the BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE of the Indian Constitution. This appointment superseded three senior judges of the Supreme Court, Jaishanker Manilal Shelat, AN Grover and K. S. Hegde, and was viewed as an attack on the independence of the Judiciary
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Fathima Beevi


M. Fathima Beevi (born 30 April 1927) is a former judge 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 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. Fathima Beevi was
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Ananga Kumar Patnaik


as judge who was pro poor and strongly supported the underprivileged classes. On 17 November 2009, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India which he served till his retirement on 2 June 2014. After retirement he was offered the post of chairman of Odisha State Human Rights Commission which he refused as he wanted to stay in Delhi. He was nominated by the then Chief Justice of India as the Chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee. He was also nominated by the CJI who is the ex-
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Chief Justice of India


and is the 46th CJI since 3 October 2018. January 1950, the year the Constitution came into effect and the supreme court came into being. He succeeded Justice Dipak Misra on 2 October 2018, and will remain in office till 17 November 2019, the day he retires on turning 65 years in age. Article 124 of the Constitution of India provides the matter of appointing judges of the Supreme Court. Though no specific provision exists in the Constitution for appointing the Chief Justice, who as a result, is appointed like the
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K. M. Joseph


Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph (born 17 June 1958) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. Earlier he was the Chief Justice of 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 Kerala High Court for more than 9 years. Joseph was born in Kottayam, Kerala, India on 17 June 1958 to Justice K. K. Mathew and Ammini Tharakan. His father K. K. Mathew was a judge of the Supreme Court of India,
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Baharul Islam


as Assam High Court. Appointed Judge of the then Assam and Nagaland High Court (Now Gauhati High Court) on 20 January 1972 (A.N.). Appointed acting chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court on 11.3.1979. Appointed as Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court on 7 July 1979. Retired on 1 March 1980. Appointed Judge, Supreme Court of India on 4 December 1980. He retired from the Supreme Court on 12 January 1983. He was the Rajya Sabha member from 1962 to 1972. He was a member of
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V. Balakrishna Eradi


the Government of Kerala for suggesting ways and means of raising the standard of legal education in the State. Eradi was appointed as Chief Justice of the High Court of Kerala in January 1980 and was elevated to the Judge of the Supreme Court of India a year later. While functioning as Judge of the Supreme Court, was appointed by Government of India as Chairman of the Ravi and Beas Waters Tribunal for adjudication of the dispute regarding sharing of the Punjab River waters between States of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. Justice Eradi retired from
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N. Santosh Hegde


position till August 1988. He worked as additional Solicitor General of the union of India from December 1989 to November 1990 and was re-appointed as the Solicitor General of India on 25-04-1998. Nitte Santosh Hegde was appointed as a judge of Supreme Court of India on 08-01-1999. He retired as judge of Supreme Court Of India in June 2005. He was conferred honorary doctorate of law degree by Mangalore University in 2005. For a brief period he worked as Chairperson of Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate
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Mohammad Hidayatullah


Madhya Pradesh High Court. On 1 December 1958, he was elevated as a justice to the Supreme Court of India. In his time he was the youngest judge of the Supreme Court of India. After serving as a judge for nearly 10 years, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on 28 February 1968 – becoming the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. He retired from this position on 16 December 1970. During his term as the Chief Justice of India, the then-President of India, Zakir Husain
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India–Zimbabwe relations


has maintained cordial relations with the majority community. Senator K. G. Patel was a member of the Politburo and Central Committee of the ruling party, he died in 2011 and was given Hero’s status in 2012. Mr Bharat Patel is a Supreme Court Judge, Justice (Retd.) Justice Ahmed Ebrahim was awarded Pravasi Bhartiya Samman in 2004. Justice Bharat Patel, a PIO and High Court Judge, was appointed the judge of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe in May 2013. Mr Raj Modi who was elected as ZANU-PF
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Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory


court sitting as the ACT Court of Appeal constituted by three judges. An appeal from the Magistrates Court of the Australian Capital Territory is heard by a single judge. Permanent judges are appointed by the executive. Additional judges are judges of other superior Australian courts (usually the Federal Court of Australia) that have been appointed as an additional judge of the Supreme Court. Acting judges are judges who have a short term appointment of up to 12 months by the executive. The executive must also appoint a Chief Justice. The Chief Justice
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Pinaki Chandra Ghose


Pinaki Chandra Ghose (born 28 May 1952) is currently Lokpal of India since 23 March 2019. He is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. Prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court, he had served as Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, and before that, as a Justice of the Calcutta High Court. At the time of appointment he was a member of the National Human Rights Commission. He appointed as the first Lokpal of India on 19 March 2019 and President of India administered oath
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K. M. Joseph


recommendation, Mr. Justice K.M. Joseph, who hails from Kerala High Court and was functioning as Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court, is "more deserving and suitable in all respects than other Chief Justices and senior puisne Judges of High Courts for being appointed as Judges of the Supreme Court of India"". Despite the strongly worded recommendation of the collegium, there still exists some suspense on its acceptance by the NDA government. There were media reports speculating that the government had returned the collegium recommendation to elevate Justice Joseph to Supreme Court
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Shivaraj Patil


Shivaraj Virupanna Patil (born 12 January 1940) is a retired Indian judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of India between 2000 and 2005. Patil joined the bar in 1962, practising in Hyderabad until the late 1970s. In 1990 he became a judge of the Karnataka High Court, transferring to the Madras High Court in 1994. He served as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from late 1998 until becoming Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court in early 1999. Patil was appointed a Justice of the Supreme
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Gopal Ballav Pattanaik


the Supreme Court of India. In 1971, he was appointed to the Standing Counsel for the state Government of Orissa. In 1974 he became an Additional Government Advocate and subsequently the Govt Advocate of the state. In 1983, he was elevated to the bench of the Orissa High Court as a permanent judge. In 1995, he was appointed the Chief Justice of Patna High Court. Only four months later, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of India. He went on to occupy the highest judicial post in the country
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Indu Malhotra


a member of the High Level Committee (HLC) in the Ministry of Law and Justice by the Government of India to review Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism in India. She had been unanimously recommended for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court. Her appointment was confirmed and ordered by the Government on 26 April 2018. She is the first woman judge to be elevated directly from the Bar. She was born in 1956 in Bangalore to Om Prakash Malhotra, Senior Advocate in Supreme Court and distinguished author and late Satya Malhotra as their
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Comptroller and Auditor General of India


ranked 9th and enjoys the same status as a judge of Supreme Court of India in Indian order of precedence. The current CAG of India is Rajiv Mehrishi, who assumed office on 25 September 2017. He is the 13th CAG of India. The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India is appointed by the President of India following a recommendation by the Prime Minister. On appointment, he/she has to make an oath or affirmation before the President of India. "I,(name of the person being appointed), having appointed Comptroller
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List of high courts in India


judge. Below him, there are courts of civil jurisdiction, known by different names in different states. Under Article 141 of the constitution, all courts in India — including high courts — are bound by the judgments and orders of the Supreme Court of India by precedence. Judges in a high court are appointed by the President of India in consultation with the Chief Justice of India and the governor of the state. High courts are headed by a chief justice. The chief justices rank fourteenth (within their respective states) and
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Rohinton Fali Nariman


Rohinton Fali Nariman (born 13 August 1956) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. Before being elevated as a judge, he practised as a senior counsel at the Supreme Court. He was appointed the Solicitor General of India on 23 July 2011. He also served as a member of the Bar Council of India. He was designated as a Senior Counsel by Justice Venkatachaliah (the then Chief Justice of India) in 1993 at the early age of 37. Nariman is the son of Fali Sam Nariman, a
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J. S. Verma


High Court from September 1986 until his elevation to the Supreme Court in June 1989. He acted as the Governor of Rajasthan twice between 1986 and 1989. In June 1989, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in January 1998. During his time in the Supreme Court, Justice Verma gave numerous landmark judgments. The state terminated the appointment of all government counsel irrespective of whether the term of the incumbent had expired or not. At the same time, the government directed
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Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar


Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar (born 30 July 1957) is a Judge of Supreme Court of India and the former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court and Himachal Pradesh High Court. He was enrolled as Advocate on 10 February 1982. He practiced on Civil, Criminal and Constitutional sides before the Subordinate Courts, Tribunals and High Court of Judicature at Bombay on the Appellate side and Original side. He also practiced exclusively in the Supreme Court of India from July 1984. He was appointed as Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on 29
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Judiciary of Cyprus


Military Court has jurisdiction over military matters. Judges are members of the Judicial Service of the Republic. All judges, except those of the Supreme Court, are appointed by the Supreme Council of Judicature, a body composed of the judges of the Supreme Court, which is responsible for their appointment, promotion, transfer and discipline. Supreme Court Judges are appointed by the President of the Republic on the recommendation of the Supreme Court. There are 85 judges serving in all courts of first instance and 13 judges serving in the Supreme Court
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B. N. Srikrishna


report in 1998, and generated widespread interest in India and abroad. In September 2001, Srikrishna was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and on 3 October 2002, was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India. On 21 May 2006, as per rules, on reaching the age of superannuation of sixty-five years, he retired from the Supreme Court. He is leading the effort to draft new data privacy-laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from US and elsewhere will
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Judiciary of India


. This independence shows up in the following manner: No minister, or even the executive collectively, can suggest any names for appointment as judges, to the President, who ultimately decides on appointing them from a list of names recommended only by the "collegium" of the judiciary. Nor can judges of the Supreme Court or a High Court be removed from office once appointed, unless an overwhelming two-thirds of members of any of the Houses of the Parliament back the move, and only on grounds of proven misconduct or
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Supreme Court of Fiji


also members of the Court of Appeal), and others specifically appointed as Supreme Court judges. The puisne judges, who sit on the High Court and the Court of Appeal, are not members of the Supreme Court. Section 129 of the Constitution declares that ""A judge who has sat in a trial of a matter that is the subject of appeal to a higher court must not sit in the appeal."" As the membership of the Supreme Court overlaps to a large extent with that of the Appeal Court and
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Supreme Court of India


guilty of misbehaviour or incapacity, further removal proceedings would be taken up by the parliament if the judge is not resigning himself. The judge upon proven guilty is also liable for punishment as per applicable laws or for contempt of the constitution by breaching the oath under disrespecting constitution A Person who has retired as a judge of the supreme court is debarred from practicing in any court of law or before any other authority in India. Article 137 of the Constitution of India lays down provision for the power of the supreme court to review its
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Bimal N. Patel


Bimal N. Patel is a professor of public international law and the former director of the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. He was appointed by a high-level committee headed by the then Chief Justice of India, K G Balakrishnan, at the Supreme Court of India premises. The Government of India has also recently appointed him as a member of the 21st Law Commission of India along with Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, retired judge of the Supreme Court of India as its chairperson. Patel is a former international civil servant, scholar
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K. M. Joseph


bench, which was later dismissed by unidentified sources from law ministry. On 26 April 2018, the government, in a letter to the Chief Justice of India, said the proposed appointment of Justice KM Joseph as a Judge of the Supreme Court at this stage does not appear to be appropriate. In the letter, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said Justice KM Joseph is placed at number 42 in the All India High Court Judges’ Seniority list and there are presently 11 Chief Justices of various High Courts who are senior to
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Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud


India and the Bombay High Court. He was Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from 31 October 2013 until appointment to the Supreme Court of India. He was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 13 May 2016. He continues to be a visiting Professor of Comparative Constitutional law at the University of Mumbai and Oklahoma University School of Law, USA. He has delivered lectures at the Australian National University, Deakin University, Melbourne Law School, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, William S. Richardson School of Law
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Chief Justice of India


him or her (for re-allocation) in any case where they require it to be looked into by a larger bench of more judges. On the administrative side, the Chief Justice carries out the following functions: maintenance of the roster; appointment of court officials and general and miscellaneous matters relating to the supervision and functioning of the Supreme Court. It has been an unbroken convention for decades now, to appoint the senior-most judge of the supreme court as the CJI. The present CJI is Justice Ranjan Gogoi,
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Supreme Court of Bangladesh


of Bangladesh and other judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President of Bangladesh with prior mandatory consultation with the Prime Minister. The entry point to the seat of judges in the High Court Division is the post of Additional Judge who are appointed from the practising Advocates of the Supreme Court Bar Association and from the judicial service under the provision of Article 98 of the constitution for a period of two years. The current ratio of such appointment is 80%–20%. Upon successful completion of this period and upon recommendation by the Chief
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Supreme Court of Nepal


. In addition to the Chief Registrar, one Registrar and four Joint-Registrar are appointed to led different departments of the Supreme Court and offer administrative assistance to the Court. Officers of the Supreme Court are appointed by Government of Nepal under the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission. Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed from among the judges who have worked for seven years as judges of the High Courts, or Gazetted first class officer of Judicial Service for minimum 12 years or have worked as any Senior Advocate or Advocate with minimum
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Three Judges Cases


India has given his assent to the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2014 on 31 December 2014, after which the bill has been renamed as the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014. By a majority opinion of 4:1, on 16 October 2015, Supreme Court struck down the constitutional amendment and the NJAC Act restoring the two-decade old collegium system of judges appointing judges in higher judiciary. Supreme Court declared that NJAC is interfering with the autonomy of the judiciary by the executive which amounts to tampering of the basic structure of
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Sarv Mittra Sikri


Sarv Mittra Sikri (26 April 1908 – 24 September 1992) was the 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 22 January 1971 until his retirement on 25 April 1973. He began his legal career in 1930 as an attorney practicing at the Lahore High Court. Following independence, he was appointed the Assistant Advocate General of Punjab in 1949. He served as advocate general from 1951 to 1964. In February 1964, he was appointed as judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in
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Anne Bampton


Anne Bampton is an Australian lawyer, who was a judge of the District Court of South Australia from 2010 until 2013 when she was appointed to the Supreme Court of South Australia. Bampton was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1985. In 2006 she was appointed a Master of the Supreme Court. In February 2010 Bampton was appointed a judge of the District Court. Bampton was appointed to the Supreme Court in November 2013. Bampton has sat on a number of high profile cases, including finding that Cy Walsh was not guilty of
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Supreme Court of Seychelles


court of Civil Appeal of Mauritius were abolished. In 1993, under the new constitution, the judicial power of Seychelles is vested in the Supreme Court, a Court of Appeal, and such subordinate courts or tribunals that may be established by legislature. The Attorney-General and the judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President from a list of candidates prepared by the Constitutional Appointments Authority. The head of the Supreme Court, who is also the head of the Judiciary, is entitled the Chief Justice. The other judges
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Ranganath Misra


High Court, and from 16 January 1981 he was appointed as the permanent Chief Justice of the Orissa High court. He was then appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of India in 1983. He became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India on 25 September 1990 and retired on 24 November 1991. Ranganath Misra was the sole member of the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission of Inquiry, a commission that headed the investigation of 1984 anti-Sikh riots and produced a report. Jagjit Singh Aurora, the former General Officer Commanding-
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Supreme Court of India


in court. Supreme court judges retire at the age of 65. However, there have been suggestions from the judges of the Supreme Court of India to provide for a fixed term for the judges including the Chief Justice of India. Article 125 of the Indian constitution leaves it to the Indian parliament to determine the salary, other allowances, leave of absence, pension, etc. of the supreme court judges. However, the parliament cannot alter any of these privileges and rights to the judge's disadvantage after his/her
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Judiciary of India


considered the question of the judiciary in some detail, reiterating what the Government of India Act 1935 had set out.: there would be a Federal Court of India which would be the forerunner to the Supreme Court. To separate the judiciary from the executive, the Sapru committee suggested that judges should have fixed salaries and tenures, and that they could only be removed for gross misbehaviour. Judges were to be appointed by the president, in consultation with the CJI. The committee appointed to deal with judicial questions as part of the
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Three Judges Cases


The Supreme Court of India's collegium system, which appoints judges to the nation's constitutional courts, has its genesis in, and continued basis resting on, three of its own judgments which are collectively known as the Three Judges Cases. Following are the three cases: Over the course of the three cases, the court evolved the principle of judicial independence to mean that no other branch of the state - including the legislature and the executive - would have any say in the appointment of judges. The court then created the collegium
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S. Abdul Nazeer


Manjunatheshwara Law College"). After taking his law degree, Nazeer enrolled as an Advocate on 1983 and practiced at the Karnataka High Court in Bengaluru. In May 2003, he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Karnataka High Court. He was later appointed a Permanent Judge of the same High Court. In February 2017, while serving as a judge of the Karnataka High Court, Nazeer was elevated to the Supreme Court of India. He became only the third judge ever to be elevated in this way, without first
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Prafulla Chandra Pant


Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant (born 30 August 1952) is an Indian author and a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Prior to his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, he had previously served as Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court at Shillong. Justice Pant was born in Pithoragarh in the state of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh state) on 30 August 1952. He got his primary and secondary education from there, then he graduated from Allahabad University with a degree of Bachelor of Science,
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Politics of Canada


Canadian justice system. The court is composed of nine judges: eight Puisne Justices and the Chief Justice of Canada. Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada are appointed by the Governor-in-Council. The "Supreme Court Act" limits eligibility for appointment to persons who have been judges of a superior court, or members of the bar for ten or more years. Members of the bar or superior judge of Quebec, by law, must hold three of the nine positions on the Supreme Court of Canada. The Canadian
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Madhukar Hiralal Kania


Madhukar Harilal Kania (born 18 November 1927) was the 23rd Chief Justice of India, serving from 13 December 1991 until his retirement on 17 November 1992. He was born in Bombay. His uncle was Harilal J. Kania, the first Chief Justice of India. He began his legal career in 1964, and was appointed as a Judge of Bombay High Court in November-1971. In June 1986 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. In May 1987, he was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court
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S. H. Kapadia


"firebrand" labour lawyer. He later joined as an advocate in the Bombay High Court on 10 September 1974. Kapadia was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on 8 October 1991 and on 23 March 1993 he was appointed as a permanent judge. On 5 August 2003 he became the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. On 18 December 2003 he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court. On 12 May 2010 he was sworn in as the Chief Justice of India by the then President Pratibha
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Government of Alabama


law, consisting of one judge of an appellate court (other than the Supreme Court), who shall be selected by the Supreme Court and shall serve as Chief Judge of the Court of the Judiciary. In addition, two judges of the circuit court are to be appointed to this body, who shall be selected by the Circuit Judges' Association; together with one district judge, who shall be selected by the District Judges' Association. Other members of the Court of the Judiciary are: two members of the state bar
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Salim Joubran


Salim Joubran (, ; born 1947) is an Israeli Arab and former judge on the Supreme Court of Israel. He served as a Supreme Court justice from 2003, and became a permanent member in May 2004. Joubran is the first Arab to receive a "permanent" appointment in the Israeli Supreme Court. He is the second Arab judge to hold a Supreme Court appointment, preceded by Abdel Rahman Zuabi, who held a fixed nine-month appointment in 1999. Salim Joubran was born in 1947 in the German Colony neighborhood
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Supreme Court of Israel


The Supreme Court (, "Beit HaMishpat HaElyon") is the highest court in Israel. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all other courts, and in some cases original jurisdiction. The Supreme Court consists of 15 Judges, who are appointed by the President of Israel, upon nomination by the Judicial Selection Committee. Once appointed, Judges serve until retirement at the age of 70, unless they resign or are removed from office. The current President of the Supreme Court (equivalent to Chief Justice) is Esther Hayut. The
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2018 Supreme Court of India crisis


The Supreme Court of India was in crisis after an interview given by Supreme Court judges Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur, and Kurian Joseph, in which they spoke against the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that he allocates certain politically controversial cases to such benches which gives favourable judgement towards a political party. The judges mentioned the allocation of the case of investigation of death of Special CBI Judge — BH Loya , who was presiding over Sohrabuddin encounter case, in which the BJP President Amit Shah was the prime accused.
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John David Phillips


J Phillips who specialized in criminal law. The other Phillips was to later become the Chief Justice of Victoria. Phillips married his wife Eva in 1965 and took silk in 1977 as a Queens Counsel. High Court judge and former Supreme Court judge Kenneth Hayne was a notable person who read under Phillips. Phillips was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1990. In 1995 he was appointed as one of the first judges to the newly created Court of Appeal as a judge of appeal. This court acted as a permanent appeal
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V. S. Sirpurkar


Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 22 August 1946) is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was appointed Supreme Court judge on 12 January 2007 and retired on 21 August 2011, completing a four-and-a-half-year tenure. Sirpurkar became a Judge of Bombay High Court in 1992 and later transferred to the Madras High Court in December, 1997. He was elevated to Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court which he served from 25 July 2004 to 19 March 2005. He then assumed office of
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Rajendra Mal Lodha


1994, he was transferred to Bombay High Court and served till 2007. He resumed office as a judge of Rajasthan High Court on 2 February 2007. On 13 May 2008, he was elevated as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court. On 17 December 2008, Justice Lodha was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court of India. Lodha was appointed as the Chief Justice of India succeeding P Sathasivam on 11 April and assumed charge on 27 April 2014. Justice Lodha said that infusing greater transparency in the appointment of
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National Human Rights Commission of India


Covenants". The Protection of Human Rights Act mandates the NHRC to perform the following functions: The NHRC consists of: (through GoI mulling appointment of retired SC Judges as chairperson) The sitting Judge of the Supreme Court or sitting Chief Justice of any High Court can be appointed only after the consultation with the Chief Justice of Supreme Court. The chairman of the NHRC is Justice H. L. Dattu and the other members are: Ex-officio members: A State Government may constitute a body known as the Human Rights Commission of
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Supreme Court of India


in a Memorandum of Procedure being followed, for the appointments. Judges used to be appointed by the president on the advice of the union cabinet. After 1993 (the Second Judges' Case), no minister, or even the executive collectively, can suggest any names to the president, who ultimately decides on appointing them from a list of names recommended only by the "collegium" of the judiciary. Simultaneously, as held in that judgment, the executive was given the power to reject a recommended name. However, according
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Oregon Supreme Court


) that have retired from a state court. Only former Supreme Court justices, elected Oregon circuit court judges, or elected Oregon Court of Appeals judges can be assigned to temporary service on the Supreme Court. The court can appoint retired judges, lawyers, and other judges to serve temporarily as judges at any level in Oregon. They can also appoint senior judges to serve on any state court at or below the highest level of court that judge had served on before retirement or resignation. The state supreme court is responsible for admitting
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Sidharth Luthra


represented the Government of India in the High Court of Delhi from 2004 to 2007 as a Senior Panel Counsel. He was designated as a Senior Advocate, a position that is conferred on merit to exceptional lawyers by the judges of the high court, in 2007. He moved his practice from the Delhi High Court to the Supreme Court of India in 2010. Luthra was appointed by the Government of India in 2009 as a counsel to assist the Judges Inquiry Committee in the Justice Soumitra Sen Case. The committee found Justice Sen guilty
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List of Chief Justices of India


two puisne judges. The first Chief Justice was Sir Maurice Gwyer and the other two judges were Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman and M. R. Jayakar. It functioned until the establishment of the Supreme Court of India on 28 January 1950. ‡ – Date of Resignation Since the birth of the Republic of India on 26 January 1950, 46 people have served as the Chief Justice of India (CJI). While H. J. Kania is the inaugural CJI, the current incumbent is Ranjan Gogoi who is appointed as Chief Justice of India on 3
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Supreme Court of India


procedure in the constitution and is claimed detrimental to the basic foundation of the constitution on which the basic structure of the constitution is resting. The basic foundation of the constitution is the dignity and the freedom of its citizens which is of supreme importance and can not be destroyed by any legislation of the parliament. Whereas the fair trial to examine the validity of the ninety-ninth constitutional amendment dated 31 December 2014, to form National Judicial Appointments Commission for the purpose of appointing the judges of the supreme court and high courts, was
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Judiciary of Uruguay


the Uruguayan Civil Code, originally published in 1868. The Constitution defines the judiciary as a hierarchical system courts, with the highest court being a five-member Supreme Court, who are appointed by the executive branch of the government, for ten-year terms. The Supreme Court appoints the judges of most of the lower courts. Below the Supreme Court, there are sixteen courts of appeal, each of which has three judges. Seven of the courts of appeal specialize in civil matters, four specialize in criminal matters, three
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Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud


developing countries. 1986 onwards, national law schools were established in a number of cities in India. He was designated as Senior Advocate by the Bombay High Court in June 1998. From 1998, he was Additional Solicitor General of India until his appointment as a Judge. He became a judge at the Bombay High Court from 29 March 2000 until his appointment as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. During this time, he was also Director of Maharashtra Judicial Academy. All through, he practised law at the Supreme Court of
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Jasti Chelameswar


Jasti Chelameswar (born 23 June 1953) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He retired on 22 June 2018 as the second most senior Supreme court judge. Earlier, he was the Chief Justice of the High Court of Kerala and Gauhati High Court. He was also one of the 4 judges who held a controversial press conference against the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra. Chelameswar was born in Peddamuttevi village of Movva mandal, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, the son of Jasti Lakshminarayana, a lawyer who
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Politics of Tajikistan


. The constitution provides for an independent judiciary. The Supreme Court is the highest court. Other high courts include the Supreme Economic Court and the Constitutional Court, which decides questions of constitutionality. The president appoints the judges of these three courts, with the approval of the legislature. There is also a Military Court. The judges of all courts are appointed to 10-year terms. Though the judiciary is nominally independent, the executive branch and criminal groups have considerable influence on judicial functions. Bribery of judges, who are poorly paid and
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John Michael D'Cunha


John Michael D'Cunha was elevated as a Permanent Judge in the Karnataka High Court on 01.11.2018. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Karnataka High Court on 14.11.2016. On 27 September 2014 he convicted Jayalalithaa, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, in her 18-year-old Disproportionate Asset case. He was appointed by the Supreme Court of India to the post in October 2013 as the fifth judge to investigate the case, replacing judge MS Balakrishna. D'Cunha was born in Gurpur, Kaikamba, from Mangalore. He studied at SDM
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Madan Mohan Punchhi


Madan Mohan Punchhi (10 October 1933 – 17 June 2015) was the 28th Chief Justice of India from 18 January 1998 until his retirement on 9 October 1998. An attempt to impeach him was unsuccessful in the Parliament. He began his legal career in 1955, and was appointed as a Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court in December-1982. In October 1989, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in January-1998 but amidst serious controversy of impending impeachment motion. In 1998
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Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah


Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah (E. S. Venkataramiah) (18 December 1924 – 24 September 1997) was the 19th Chief Justice of India, serving from 19 June 1989 until his retirement on 17 December 1989. He began his legal career in 1946, and was appointed as a Judge of Karnataka High Court in November 1970. In March 1979, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and he became Chief Justice of India in June 1989. Incidentally he is the first person from Karnataka to become the Chief Justice
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Supreme Court of Haiti


The Supreme Court of Haiti () is the highest court in the Haitian legal system. The Supreme Court building is located in Port-au-Prince. From 1806–1817, the Senate of Haiti served judicial functions. The Supreme Court was first formed in 1817 under Petion's 1816 constitution as a body of a grand judge, dean, six judges and a government commissioner, all of whom were to be appointed for life. The first Grand Judge of the Supreme Court was André Dominique Sabourin, who concurrently served as Minister of
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A. R. Lakshmanan


Arunachalam Chettiar Lakshmanan, B.A., B.L., is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He studied in Chennai (Madras). Before his elevation to the Supreme Court in 2002, he served as a judge on the Madras High Court and Kerala High Court. He was also appointed as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court in 2000 and Andhra Pradesh High Court in 2001. He retired in 2007. He hails from the Nagarathar community and his native is Devakottai, Tamil Nadu. He served as chairman of the Law
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Supreme Court of Ukraine


the Supreme Court). According to a judicial reform the Court consists of 48 justices. Appointments to the Court are made after selected in a competition candidates are vetted by the Supreme Council of Justice, who then draw up a final list of candidates for the Supreme Court. After a relevant presidential decree, these candidates will become judges of the Supreme Court. Each member of the Court (as far as each judge in Ukraine) is obligated to retire at the age of 65. The Chairman of the Supreme Court is elected
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Solicitor-General of New Zealand


) and more recently, Russell McVeagh. In turn, his predecessor was Dr David Collins QC, who was appointed as a Judge of the High Court in March 2012. There has been a usual practice of appointing the Solicitor General as a Judge of the High Court, although former Solicitor-General Terrence Arnold's predecessor, John McGrath QC, was appointed to the Court of Appeal in July 2000 (Justice McGrath was subsequently appointed to the Supreme Court in May 2005. Justice Arnold was appointed to the Supreme Court in June
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Murray Kellam


Murray Byron Kellam was formerly a judge of the County Court of Victoria in Australia before being appointed as a judge on 28 January 1998 to the Supreme Court of Victoria, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Victoria. He was also the first President of VCAT. On 16 May 2007 Kellam was appointed a judge of Appeal. He retired from the Supreme Court on 15 June 2009. Kellam also served as a member of the Supreme Court of Samoa. He was appointed an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of the
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Supreme Court of Israel


shaping of the judicial body, through the manner of judicial appointment, is carried out by all the authorities together. Supreme Court Judges cannot be removed from office except by a decision of the Court of Discipline, consisting of judges appointed by the President of the Supreme Court, or upon a decision of the Judicial Selection Committee—at the proposal of the Minister of Justice or the President of the Supreme Court—with the agreement of seven of its nine members. The following are qualified to be appointed Judge of the Supreme
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Vikramajit Sen


Justice Vikramajit Sen (born 31 December 1950) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India. A former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court. He is the present Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange. Sen is graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in History. On 7 July 1999, Sen was appointed as an additional judge of the Delhi High Court and on 30 October 2000, he was appointed as a permanent judge. On 12 September 2011 he was transferred to Karnataka High Court as an acting Chief Justice and subsequently
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Madras High Court


writs under the Constitution of India. Covering 107 acres, the court complex is one of the largest in the world, next only to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, London. It consists of 74 judges and a chief justice who are in charge of the general policy adopted in the administration of justice. In September 2016, the centre government forwarded names of 15 new judges to the President for his signature on their warrants of appointment. Of the 15, nine are from among lawyers and six from the subordinate judiciary.
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Indira Banerjee


Justice Indira Banerjee is presently a Judge in the Supreme Court of India, the 8th female Judge in history and the 3rd female Judge of the Supreme Court of India at present. She was the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, the second woman to hold the postition in India. before being elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Indira Banerjee was born on 24 September 1957. She did her schooling at the Loreto House in Kolkata. She pursued her higher education at the Presidency College, Kolkata and
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Rosmari Carandang


colleague in the Court, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, who was the Valedictorian of the batch. In December 1993, she was appointed Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 12, serving also as one of its Vice-Executive Judges. She was appointed Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals in March 2003, serving the Court for over 15 years until her appointment to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. On November 26, 2018 President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Carandang to the Supreme Court. She will retire
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Gibril B. Semega-Janneh


Gibril Baboucarr Semega-Janneh is a Gambian judge who currently serves as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia. Janneh has served as a High Court judge in the Gambia, as well as a Court of Appeal judge. In 2005, he was appointed as a Fellow of Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute. He was serving as a judge in Sierra Leone on secondment in 2008. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 2008 to 2015, when he was dismissed. He was re-appointed on 1 November
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