Talk:High courts of India

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Hi. Feel free to use the image at Madras High Court, if you feel as appropriate. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 13:37, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * There's not much of the building, more of a statue. If we expand the text we can add it in the future if there are no more better images. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:31, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ya, I knew that. That's why I've put it in the talk page for the record. I'm just consolidating the available resources. By the way, there is an interesting legend around Manuneedhi Cholan depicted by the statue. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 10:04, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

It is not correct that the Kerala High Court was established in 1958 by the Kerala High Court Act, 1958. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.

Section 49 of that Act:

49. High Courts for the new States. (1) The High Courts exercising immediately before the appointed day jurisdiction in relation to the existing States of Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab shall, as from the appointed day, be deemed to be the High Courts for the new States of Bombay, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, respectively. (2) As from the appointed day, there shall be established a High Court for each of the new States of Kerala, Mysore and Rajasthan.

Section 60 extended the jurisdiction to Lakshadweep. --Manojb 20:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

The statement "The high courts are the principal civil courts of original jurisdiction in the state, and can try all offences including those punishable with death." does not convey an accurate picture of what a High Court does. It gives the impression that the High Courts' main workload consists if civil and criminal trials. This is not true. Although they have the jurisdiction, bulk of the civil and criminal trials happen in the District Courts. Most cases in the High Court belong to the appellate side (either appeals from District Courts or tribunals or appeals of administrative decisions). The original side workload mostly involves constitutional cases (cases that allege that an individual's constitutional right has been violated or a challenge to a law or regulation as being unconstitutional). It is rare that an original civil or criminal trial takes place in the High Court. Civil trials sometimes happen for high value disputes, but original criminal trials are very rare. High courts also have original jurisdiction with respect to election petitions with regard to elections to the State Legislatures or Parliament. A High Court has supervisory and disciplinary authority over all courts and judges in its jurisdiction.

I could not think of a verbiage that would accurately and concisely capture what I wanted to say, so I did not edit. --Manojb 21:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Image
Perhaps image of Karnataka High Court would look better, if placed on the left. --Bhadani 16:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

date-format mess
Can people here please decide on international or US format. Please see MOSNUM for the rules. Tony  (talk)  12:41, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Image overlaps
Has this page been altered since it went FA? The images overlap the first big blue box, and the India template box looks a bit clumsy and out of place, surely.  Wik idea  14:00, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

hi please put the photos of all highcourts it would look much ibetter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.192.145.234 (talk) 09:28, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Serious issues with this list

 * The opening paragraph: "There are 24 High Courts at the state and union territory level of India which, together with the Supreme Court of India at the national level, comprise the country's judicial system. ... Below the High Courts is a hierarchy of subordinate courts such as the civil courts, family courts, criminal courts and various other district courts." So are these subordinate courts not part of the judicial system, then?  I would find that hard to believe.
 * References: there is one reference after 2005, from May 2012. That reference does not support the three dates from 2013. And the Chief Justices / acting Chief Justices - have none of them changed since 2005?  I find that hard to believe. If they have, where are the references for this? This whole article has serious referencing and validation issues because of the old-style use of general references.
 * I have tried to sort out some issues - the mish-mash of date formats, non-standard use of italics for legislation - but there are other issues (excessive use of bold, no sortability of the tables, for example) obvious on first look. I am surprised that this has made it onto the main page without any of these issues being noticed. BencherliteTalk 10:04, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Kolkata HC - establishment date
"The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in the country, established on 2 July 1862" is in the sixth paragraph of the preamble - but in the tables of HCs the establishment date is shown as 1 July 1862! According to http://www.ebc-india.com/lawyer/hcourts.htm the correct date is 2 July 1862. I have amended the table accordingly.

Since there's a Wikipedia page for the Indian High Courts Act 1861 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_High_Courts_Act_1861), I've added this link for the Madras, Bombay, Calcutta and Allahabad HCs.

Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 00:07, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Madras, Calcutta and Bombay courts
These three are still called Madras HC, Bombay HC and Calcutta HC, even in their Web pages. OldMan8 (talk) 06:07, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

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