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Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai
Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, commonly known by its former name Madras Law College, is a law school, located in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. It is also referred to as Government Law College or GLC, Chennai. It was established in 1891. It was renamed in 1990, as Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, by the Government of Tamil Nadu in commemoration of the birth centenary of B. R. Ambedkar. In 1997, the Government of Tamil Nadu passed an Act which brought the college under the wings of the newly established Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, splitting the college from the University of Madras. History The genesis of legal education in Madras can be traced to the informal law classes conducted by George Norton, Advocate General of Madras State (1827–1853) in his house in the form of conversations in the early 19th century. In 1852, at the direction of Henry Pottinger, Sir Henry Eldred Pottinger, the Governor of Madras during that period, a Government High Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Madras
The University of Madras is a public university, public State university (India), state university in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in India, incorporated by an act of the Council of India, Legislative Council of India under the British India, British government. The university is the alma mater of presidents of India, five Presidents of India, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; Chief Justice of India, three Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of India; two Indian physics Nobel laureates, CV Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; several notable mathematicians including Srinivasa Ramanujan and Abel Prize winner S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan; and Turing Award winner Raj Reddy among others. The University of Madras is a collegiate university, collegiate research university and has six campuses in the city: Chepauk, Marina Beach, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Maduravoyal and Chetpet. It offers more than 230 cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam
Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam (12 September 1915 – 10 August 1986) was a former Chief Justice of Madras High Court and Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Career Kailasam was born in the Palapatti Zamindar family of the undivided Salem district, now in the Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu. He passed B.Sc. in Botany from Presidency College, Madras in 1935. In 1937, he completed his law degree from Madras Law College. He was appointed Public Prosecutor of Madras High Court in 1960 and also worked as acting Advocate general for few days. Kailasam became the permanent judge of this High Court on 20 October 1960 and was elevated to the post of Chief Justice on 8 April 1976. Justice Kailasam was appointed Judge of Supreme Court in 1977 as the first Chief Justice of Madras who accepted the appointment to Supreme Court of India. He retired on 12 September 1980. Family Justice Kailasam married the renowned Tamil poet Smt. Soundra Kailasam. Their daughter's name is Nalini Chidambaram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla (born 23 July 1951) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Early life Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla was born on 23 July 1951, in Karaikudi, Sivagangai District, Tamil Nadu, India. Career Honorable Kalifulla enrolled as an advocate on 20 August 1975, after which he began practicing labour law in the law firm of T.S. Gopalan & Co. On 2 March 2000, he was appointed a judge of the Madras High Court. In February 2011, he became a member of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and was appointed to serve as the acting Chief Justice two months later. In September 2011, he was named as the Chief Justice of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. On 2 April 2012, he was named to the Supreme Court of India, sworn in by Chief Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia. Justice Kalifulla retired from the Supreme Court of India on 22 July 2016. On 8 March 2019 a five-judge Constitution Bench has referred Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri disputed structure land disp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid
Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid or V. Khalid (1 July 1922 — 15 November 2017) was an Indian judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of India and acting Governor of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Career Khalid studied at Municipal High School of Kannur, Government Brennen College, Thalassery and Presidency College, Madras. He passed Law from the Law College, Madras. After the enrollment he started his lawyer career at Kannur Munsiff court initially then moved to the Madras High Court and Kerala High Court in 1948. He worked on Criminal, Civil and constitutional matters. On 7 March 1974, Khalid was appointed an additional judge of Kerala High Court. He was elevated in the post of the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court on 24 August 1983. In 1984 he served as an acting Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for 12 days. On 25 June 1984 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judiciary of India, judicial authorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orissa High Court
The Orissa High Court is the High Courts of India, High Court for the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Odisha. The then Bengal Presidency was a vast province including present day Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. It was difficult to administratively manage such a vast area, inhabited by people speaking different languages and having different traditions. Administrative exigencies required separation of such areas which originally did not form part of Bengal. So, the new province of Bihar and Odisha was formed on 22 March 1912. However, the said new province of Bihar and Odisha was under the jurisdiction of the Calcutta High Court. On 9 February 1916, in exercise of the powers under Section 113 of the Government of India Act 1915, Government of India Act, 1915, the King of the United Kingdom issued letters of patent constituting the Patna High Court, High Court of Patna. Odisha was placed under the jurisdiction of Patna High Court. Although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerala High Court
The High Court of Kerala is the List of high courts in India, highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and the Union territory of Lakshadweep. It is located in Kochi. Drawing its powers under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the High Court has the power to issue directions, orders and writs including the writs of ''habeas corpus'', ''mandamus'', ''Prohibition (writ), prohibition'', ''quo warranto'' and ''certiorari'' for ensuring the enforcement of the Fundamental Rights in India, Fundamental Rights guaranteed by the Constitution to citizens or for other specified purposes. The High Court is empowered with original, appeal, appellate and revisional jurisdiction in civil as well as criminal matters, and the power to answer references to it under some statutes. The High Court has the superintendence and visitorial jurisdiction over all courts and tribunals of inferior jurisdiction covered under its territorial jurisdiction. At present, the sanctioned Judge strength of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of India
The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judiciary of India, judicial authority and the supreme court, highest court of the Republic of India. It is the final Appellate court, court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India. It also has the power of Judicial review in India, judicial review. The Supreme Court, which consists of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of fellow 33 judges, has extensive powers in the form of original jurisdiction, original, appellate jurisdiction, appellate and Advisory opinion, advisory jurisdictions. As the apex constitutional court, it takes up appeals primarily against verdicts of the List of High Courts of India, High Courts of various states and tribunals. As an advisory court, it hears matters which are referred by the President of India#Judicial powers, president of India. Under judicial review, the court invalidates both ordinary laws as well as Amendment of the Constitution of India, constitutional amendments as per the basi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Kerala
The governor of Kerala is the constitutional head of state of the southern Indian state of Kerala. The governor is appointed by the President of India, and holds office at the President's pleasure. The governor is ''de jure'' head of the government of Kerala; all its executive actions are taken in the governor's name. The elected council of ministers is headed by the chief minister of Kerala, who thus holds ''de facto'' executive authority in the state. The Constitution of India also empowers the governor to act upon their own discretion, such as the ability to appoint or dismiss a ministry (collective executive), ministry, recommend President's rule, or reserve bills for the president's assent.Durga Das Basu. ''Introduction to the Constitution of India''. 1960. 20th edition, 2011 reprint. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. . p. 237, 241–44. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Kerala as well. Since 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andhra Pradesh High Court
The High Court of Andhra Pradesh is the High Court of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It serves the judicial duties of Andhra Pradesh. History The High Court of Andhra Pradesh was established in the year 1954 when the state was formed from the earlier Madras Presidency. After the merger of the Hyderabad State with Andhra State to form the State of Andhra Pradesh, the Court initially continued at Guntur till 1956. Thereafter the High Court started functioning from the then capital city of state, Hyderabad. However, post bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad was constituted as a common High Court, until the new High Court for the State of Andhra Pradesh is created. Later by a Presidential order, the High Court for the state of Andhra Pradesh was established on 1 January 2019 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. Geography and structure The High Court is located at Amar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of India
The chief justice of India (CJI) is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India and the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary. The Constitution of India grants power to the President of India to appoint, as recommended by the outgoing chief justice in consultation with other judges, (as envisaged in Article 124 (2) of the Constitution) the next chief justice, who will serve until they reach the age of 65 or are removed by the constitutional process of impeachment. As per convention, the successor suggested by the incumbent chief justice is most often the next most senior judge of the Supreme Court. However, this convention has been broken twice. In 1973, Justice A. N. Ray was appointed, superseding three senior judges, and in 1977 when Justice Mirza Hameedullah Beg was appointed as Chief Justice, superseding Justice Hans Raj Khanna. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
