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It is a court of record and has all the powers of such a court including the authority to punish an individual for contempt of court. Like all other High Courts of India , this court also consists of a Chief Justice and other judges who are appointed by the President of India.
The high courts of India are the highest courts of appellate jurisdiction in each state and ... Indian High Courts Act 1861: Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu: Chennai ...
The High Courts are the top judicial bodies in individual states, controlled and managed by Chief Justices of the respective courts. There are 25 High Courts in the country with seven of them having multiple jurisdictions. The High Courts manage a system of sub-ordinate courts headed by the various District and Session Courts in their ...
There are 25 High courts in India. The number of total judges sanctioned in these high courts are 1114 of which 840 judges are permanent and remaining 274 sanctioned for additional judges. As of 7 January 2024, 361 of the seats, about 32.3% are vacant. Allahabad High Court, has the largest number (160) of judges while Sikkim High Court has the smallest number (3) of judges. The lists of high ...
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 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Bombay High Court in Mumbai .
The jurisdiction of the Madras High Court has been extended to Pondicherry with effect from 6 November 1962. [note 1] The Chief Justice of the Madras High Court is the head of the judiciary of Puducherry. The present chief justice is S. V. Gangapurwala. [31] [32]
The Madras Bar Council or Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry is the regulatory and statutorily representative body for lawyers practicing law in the state of Tamilnadu and Union Territory of Puducherry. It was constituted as per the mandatory requirement as per Advocates Act, 1961 and Bar Council of India. In March 1953, S. R. Das as head ...
1955-1958- Professor at the School of Law of Pondicherry; Professeur à l’Ecole de Droit de Pondichéry. [21] 1955-1963- President of the Labour Court, [21] Pondicherry; 1963-1968- Judge of the High Court of Appeal, [21] Pondicherry; 1968-1974- District and Sessions Judge, [21] Pondicherry; 1974-1984- Chief judge, [21] Pondicherry