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In 2016, it was announced that the premises of the Bombay High Court would be shifting to Bandra Kurla Complex. The 125th anniversary of the building was marked by the release of a book, commissioned by the Bar Association, called The Bombay High Court: The Story of the Building – 1878–2003 by local historians Rahul Mehrotra and Sharada ...
The Maharaj Libel Case tried in HM Queen Victoria's Supreme Court of Bombay was hailed at the time as “the most extraordinary of any case tried in any of Her Majesty’s Courts in India” [30] (The Indian Reformer, June 6, 1862, quoted in Mulji 1865, pp. App. 163). It was covered daily by medias in India and even in Europe as one of the ...
He was educated at St. Xavier's High School and College in Bombay, after which he went on to study Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1918 to 1921, taking a BA in 1921 and MA in 1925. [3] In 1922, he was admitted to the Bar of the Bombay High Court, where he worked with such illuminaries as Sir Jamshedji Kanga and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest high court in the country, brought into existence on 14 May 1862. [2] High courts that handle numerous cases of a particular region have permanent benches established there. Benches are also present in states which come under the jurisdiction of a court outside its territorial limits.
Bombay High Court: Abbreviation: CJ Bombay: Seat: Bombay: Nominator: Collegium of the Supreme Court of India: Appointer: President of India: Term length: till the age of 62 yrs [1] Constituting instrument: Constitution of India (under Article 124) Formation: 1862; 163 years ago () First holder: Justice Matthew Richard Sausse (1862-1866) Salary
Each High Court could consist of a chief justice and up to 15 judges. Under §3 of the Act, judges could be selected from barristers (with five years of experience), civil servants (with ten years of experience including three years as a zillah judge), judges of small cause courts or sudder ameen (with five years of experience), or pleaders of lander courts or High Courts (with five years of ...
It was in existence from 1824 to 1862, when the Bombay High Court was founded. The role of the judges of the court was to defend, on behalf of the British Crown, the interests of the people of Bombay against the East India Company. [1] The Supreme Court was preceded by the Recorder's Court, established in 1798. [2]
The plaintiffs asked the court to take four steps in order to remove Aga Khan's authority and institute a system of self-governance: [10] first, an accounting of all Khoja communal property in Bombay; second, the collection of all community property under the court's supervision; third, the institution of a regularized election procedure for ...