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#REDIRECT [[Madras High Court]]
{{short description|High court in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox high court
| court_name = Madras High Court
|native_name=<!-- Don't add Indic script here, per [[WP:INDICSCRIPT]] -->| image = Chennai High Court.jpg
| imagesize = 260px
| motto = [[Satyameva Jayate|''Truth Alone Triumphs'']]
| caption = Madras High Court Building
| established = {{date and age|df=yes|1862|08|15}}
| coordinates = {{coord|13|05|12.8|N|80|17|16.4|E|type:landmark_region:IN|display=title,inline}}
| country = {{flag|India}}
| location = Principal Seat: [[George Town, Chennai|George Town]], [[Chennai]]<br />Circuit Bench: [[Madurai]]
| type = [[President of India|Presidential]] with [[advice and consent|confirmation]] of [[Chief Justice of India]] and [[Governors of states of India|Governor of respective state]].
| authority = [[Constitution of India]]
| appeals = [[Supreme Court of India]]
| terms = Mandatory retirement by age of 62
| positions = 75 <br> (Permanent 56; Addl. 19)
| website = [http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in Madras High Court]
| chiefjudgetitle = [[Chief Justice]]
| acting chiefjudgename =
| termstart = 4 January 2021
| termend =
|chiefjudgename = [[Sanjib Banerjee]]}}


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The '''Madras High Court''' <ref>https://amp/s/www.ndtv.com/india-news/to-rename-bombay-high-court-madras-high-court-calcutta-high-court-fresh-bill-in-parliament-to-be-int-1949435%3famp=1&akamai-rum=off</ref> is the second oldest [[High Courts of India|High Court]] of India after the [[Calcutta High Court]] in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Calcutta High Court - About|url=https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/page/About-High-Court|access-date=2020-10-21|website=www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Madras High Court: Where justice began 125 years ago|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/jul/18/madras-high-court-where-justice-began-125-years-ago-1629939.html|access-date=2020-10-21|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Alexander|first=Deepa|date=2019-01-29|title=History lessons about Madras High Court|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/history-lessons-about-madras-high-court/article26120968.ece|access-date=2020-10-21|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> It is located in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]. The court is one of the three High Courts in India established in the three Presidency Towns of [[Madras]], [[Bombay]] and [[Calcutta]] by [[letters patent]] granted by [[Queen Victoria]], bearing date 26 June 1862. It exercises [[original jurisdiction]] over the city of [[Chennai]] and [[appellate jurisdiction]] over the entire state of [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Union territory]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]], as well as extraordinary original jurisdiction, civil and criminal, under the letters patent and special original jurisdiction for the issue of writs under the [[Constitution of India]].<ref name="Madras High Court">{{cite web | url=http://chennai.bsnl.co.in/chennai/hicourt.html | title=Madras High Court | publisher=BSNL | access-date=2 March 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130065529/http://www.chennai.bsnl.co.in/chennai/hicourt.html | archive-date=30 January 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=aboutMHC>{{cite news|title=History of Madras High Court|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/hhist.htm|access-date=25 April 2014|newspaper=Madras High Court|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311163811/http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/hhist.htm|archive-date=11 March 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Covering 107 acres, the court complex is one of the largest in the world, next only to [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]], [[London]].
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It consists of 74 judges and a chief justice who are in charge of the general policy adopted in the administration of justice.<ref name=aboutMHC />
In September 2016, the centre government forwarded the 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/high-court-to-get-15-new-judges-next-week/article9145702.ece|title=High Court to get 15 new judges next week|website=thehindu.com|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925014230/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/high-court-to-get-15-new-judges-next-week/article9145702.ece|archive-date=25 September 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Justice [[Sanjib Banerjee]] is the current Chief Justice of Madras High Court. He assumed office on 4 January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Emmanuel|first=Meera|title=A Chief Justice is first a judge and only then a Chief: Madras High Court's newly sworn in Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee|url=https://www.barandbench.com/news/madras-high-court-chief-justice-sanjib-banerjee-sworn-in|access-date=2021-01-04|website=Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bench|first=Bar &|title=[Breaking] Chief Justices S Muralidhar, Hima Kohli, Sanjib Banerjee appointed for High Courts of Orissa, Telangana, Madras|url=https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/breaking-chief-justices-appointed-for-high-courts-of-orissa-telangana-madras|access-date=2020-12-31|website=Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news|language=en}}</ref>

==History==
From 1817 to 1862, the Supreme Court of Madras was situated in a building opposite the [[Chennai Beach railway station]]. From 1862 to 1892, the High Court was also housed in that building. The present buildings were officially inaugurated on 12 July 1892, when the then Madras Governor, [[Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock|Beilby, Baron Wenlock]], handed over the key to the then Chief Justice [[Arthur Collins (judge)|Sir Arthur Collins]].<ref>{{cite news
|last = Sangameswaran
|first = K. T.
|author2 = Vivek Narayanan
|title = Madras High Court buildings to undergo repairs soon
|newspaper = The Hindu
|location = Chennai
|publisher = The Hindu
|date = 8 June 2014
|url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-society/madras-high-court-buildings-to-undergo-repairs-soon/article6093051.ece
|access-date = 22 June 2014
|url-status = live
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140609162639/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-society/madras-high-court-buildings-to-undergo-repairs-soon/article6093051.ece
|archive-date = 9 June 2014
|df = dmy-all
}}</ref>

[[File:MadrasHighCourtManuNeedhiCholanStatue.jpg|thumb|left|190px|The statue of [[Manuneedhi Cholan]] in the Madras High Court premises]]
[[British India]]'s three [[presidency town]]s of [[Chennai|Madras]] (Chennai), [[Mumbai|Bombay]] (Mumbai), and [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] (Kolkata) were each granted a High Court by [[letters patent]] dated 26 June 1862.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/hhist.htm|title=Madras High Court|website=www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509030159/http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/hhist.htm|archive-date=9 May 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The letters patent were issued by [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] under the authority of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British parliament]]'s [[Indian High Courts Act 1861]]. The three courts remain unique in modern India, having been established under British [[royal charter]]; this is in contrast with the country's other high courts, which have been directly established under the Indian Constitution. However, the [[Constitution of India]] recognises the status of the older courts.

The Madras High Court was formed by merging the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras, and the [[Sadr Diwani Adalat]]. The Court was required to decide cases in accordance with ''justice, equity and good conscience''. The earliest judges of the High Court included Judges Holloway, Innes, and Morgan. The first Indian to sit as a judge of the High Court was Justice [[T. Muthuswamy Iyer]]. Other early Indian judges included Justices [[V. Krishnaswamy Iyer]] and [[P. R. Sundaram Iyer]].

The Madras High Court was a pioneer in Original Side jurisdiction reform in favor of Indian practitioners as early as the 1870s.

The Madras High Court's history means that the decisions of the British [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]] are still binding on it, provided that the ''[[Ratio decidendi|ratio]]'' of a case has not been overruled by the [[Supreme Court of India]].

Although the name of the city was changed from Madras to Chennai in 1996, the Court as an institution did not follow suit and retained the name as the Madras High Court. However, a Bill to rename the ''Madras High Court'' as the ''Chennai High Court'' was approved by the cabinet on 5 July 2016, along with the change of name of the [[Calcutta High Court]] and [[Bombay High Court]] as [[Kolkata High Court]] and [[Mumbai High Court]], respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cabinet-renames-bombay-madras-calcutta-high-courts-kolkata-mumbai-chennai/|title=Cabinet renames high courts in Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai|date=5 July 2016|website=indianexpress.com|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101110815/http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cabinet-renames-bombay-madras-calcutta-high-courts-kolkata-mumbai-chennai/|archive-date=1 November 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The Bill called High Courts (Alternation of Names) Bill has been introduced in the Lok Sabha on 19 July 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece|title=Govt. moves Bill to change names of High Courts|last=PTI|website=thehindu.com|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105171321/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece|archive-date=5 November 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The Bill is yet to be passed by both Houses of Parliament. However, the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] has passed a unanimous resolution appealing to the [[Government of India|Central Government]] to rename the court as ''High Court of Tamil Nadu'' since the Court serves the whole state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Rename-Madras-high-court-as-Tamil-Nadu-HC-and-not-as-Chennai-HC-resolution-passed-by-TN-assembly-says/articleshow/53489640.cms|title=Rename Madras high court as Tamil Nadu HC and not as Chennai HC, resolution passed by TN assembly says - Times of India|website=indiatimes.com|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623050451/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Rename-Madras-high-court-as-Tamil-Nadu-HC-and-not-as-Chennai-HC-resolution-passed-by-TN-assembly-says/articleshow/53489640.cms|archive-date=23 June 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

{{Courts of India}}

==Building Complex==
[[File:A building in Chennai.JPG|thumb|right|Madras High Court, Chennai]]
The High Court complex is located in the sourthern end of [[George Town, Chennai|George Town]]. The High Court building was constructed after shifting out a couple of temples that were in existence on the land in the 19th century. The present building now used exclusively by the Madras High Court was actually built to house, along with the High Court, the Courts of Small Causes and the City Civil Court, which were subsequently shifted out to other new buildings on the campus.<ref name="TH_ATimelessEdifice">{{cite news
|last = Mohamed Imranullah
|first = S.
|title = A timeless edifice serving justice celebrates 125 years today
|newspaper = The Hindu
|location = Chennai
|publisher = The Hindu
|date = 16 September 2017
|url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/a-timeless-edifice-serving-justice-celebrates-125-years-today/article19696895.ece
|access-date = 29 September 2017
|url-status = live
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170920142756/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/a-timeless-edifice-serving-justice-celebrates-125-years-today/article19696895.ece
|archive-date = 20 September 2017
|df = dmy-all
}}</ref>

Construction of the High Court building, an exquisite example of [[Indo-Saracenic]] style of [[architect]]ure, began in October 1888 and was completed in 1892 with the design prepared by J. W. Brassington, the then consulting architect to the government,<ref name="TH_ATimelessEdifice"/> and later under the guidance of the famed architect [[Henry Irwin]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/colItems.asp?ID=SEC20020328080459|title='''Restoring the old''' Article from NewIndPress news website|website=newindpress.com|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061126071824/http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/colItems.asp?ID=SEC20020328080459|archive-date=26 November 2006|df=dmy-all}}</ref> who completed it with the assistance of J. H. Stephens.

J. W. Brassington initially prepared a plan to construct a building with 11 court halls at an estimate of {{INR}}945,000. Of these, six were meant for the High Court, four for the Small Causes Court, and one for the City Civil Court. An additional building to house the lawyers’ chambers was subsequently added to the plan, with a walkway on the first floor to connect it to the main building, increasing the total expenditure to {{INR}}1,298,163. Complementing a 125-feet-tall standalone [[lighthouse]] that was already in existence on the court campus, a dioptric light was built on the 142-feet-high main tower of the building, raising the total height of the tower to 175 feet.<ref name="TH_ATimelessEdifice"/>

Save for the heavy steel girders and some ornamental tiles, almost all the materials for the construction were procured locally. Bricks and terracotta articles were brought from the government brickfields. Most of the construction work was executed by artisans trained at the School of Arts in the city.<ref name="TH_ATimelessEdifice"/>

The High Court building was damaged in the shelling of Madras by [[SMS Emden]] on 22 September 1914, at the beginning of the [[First World War]]. It remains one of the very few Indian buildings to have been damaged by a German attack.

There are several matters of architectural interest in the High Court. The painted ceilings and the stained glass doors are masterpieces in themselves. The [[Lighthouse, Chennai|old lighthouse]] of the city is housed within the High Court campus but is unfortunately poorly maintained and is in disrepair.

The Department of Posts has allotted a [[Postal Index Number]] (PIN) code of 600104 to the zone occupied by the Chennai High Court. The boundaries of the High Court complex are marked by two roads, namely, Prakasam Road (formerly Broadway) and Rajaji Road (the old North Beach Road), stretching northward from the statue of [[Rajaji]] in the northeast and the statue of T. Prakasamgaru in the southwest within the complex. The complex houses the largest number of courts in [[Asia]].<ref name="SomeThoughtsAround">{{cite news
|last = Chandru
|first = K.
|title = Some thoughts around the Madras High Court
|newspaper = The Hindu
|location = Chennai
|publisher = The Hindu
|date = 26 November 2011
|url = http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2660141.ece?homepage=true
|access-date = 27 November 2011
|url-status = live
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111128054636/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2660141.ece?homepage=true
|archive-date = 28 November 2011
|df = dmy-all
}}</ref>

[[File:Georgetown panorama.jpg|thumb|center|900px|Panoramic view of the High Court and its surroundings]]

==Bench==
The current Chief Justice of the Madras High Court is [[Sanjib Banerjee]]. The court currently has 57 [[judge]]s, including the Chief Justice, who exercise civil, criminal, writ, testamentary and admiralty jurisdiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/prejudge.html|title=Madras High Court - Present Judges|first=Madras High|last=Court|website=www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116140257/http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/prejudge.html|archive-date=16 January 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The Madurai Bench has been functioning since 2004.

The vestiges of the colonial High Court continue to characterise the premises till date. In a rare tradition which is today a distinction, Judges of the Madras High Court are still led by orderlies who bear a [[ceremonial mace]] made of silver. This is a practice so old and Anglican that most High Courts and even the Supreme Court of India have either not had the practice at all or have abandoned it long back.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/lordships-cling-to-colonial-mace/article4388726.ece|title=Lordships cling to colonial mace|date=7 February 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X|access-date=14 June 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316061637/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/lordships-cling-to-colonial-mace/article4388726.ece|archive-date=16 March 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Reporting—Madras Law Journal (since 1891)==
The Madras High Court is the birthplace of organised legal reporting in India. It is home to the Madras Law Journal,<ref>[http://www.mljlibrary.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213194553/http://www.mljlibrary.com/ |date=13 December 2007 }}</ref> which was the first journal dedicated to reporting texts of judgments of the High Court started way back in 1891.
[[File:The High Courts.jpeg|thumb|The High Courts, c. 1905]]

An informal eponymous club called The Saturday Club, that met at 11 a. m. every week was started at the house of the Vakil Bar's senior member [[Sir S. Subramania Iyer]] in [[Mylapore]] in 1888 with all leading members of the Madras Bar taking part. At one of these meetings, it was decided to start ''The Madras Law Journal'', which was inspired by the then newly established periodicals like ''Law Quarterly Review'', started by Sir Frederick Pollock in England in 1885 and ''The Harvard Law Review'' established by Harvard Law School Association in 1887.

The objectives of the journal were laid out in the preface of the first issue: "In addition to giving our own reports of the decisions of the High Courts in Madras and other places, we hope to place before our readers translations of various Hindu Law Books which remain yet untranslated, insofar as they have bearing on questions which practically arise for decision every day in our Courts of Justice. We propose further from time to time, to place side by side the conflicting decisions of the various Courts in India on the same point in the hope that such procedure will enable the Courts to act in greater harmony than they do at present in the interpretation of Acts and enunciation of general principles of law and when this is not possible, to enable the Legislature to bring about such harmony by removing the ambiguities which may have given rise to such discordant views."

Right from the beginning, ''The Madras Law Journal'' has been a source of inspiration and instruction to the students of law, and its notes and editorial reviews always evoked admiration and respect. It achieved well-deserved fame throughout India, in [[England]] and [[United States|America]] and indeed throughout the [[British Empire]] for its quickness and accuracy in reporting and discrimination in the selection of cases to be reported. It has now come to occupy a premier place among legal periodicals in the country and its weight and authority have been consistently considerable with the Bench and the Bar in all parts of India.

==Reporting—Madras Weekly Notes (Criminal and Civil) Since 1910 ==
Madras Weekly Notes is a Law Journal reporting the Criminal Side Judgements of the Hon'ble Madras High Court from 1910 to till date.

Mode of Citation : 1929 1 MWN(Cr.) 1 which means <Year> <Volume> <Journal Name> <Page Number>

== Law Journals Reporting Judgements of the Madras High Court ==
CTC - Current Tamil Nadu Cases. CWC - Current Writ Cases. TNMAC - Tamil Nadu Motor Accident Cases.

==Madurai Bench==
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Madras High Court Madurai Bench.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Madurai Bench]] -->
Established in 2004, the court is a boon to the people in fourteen southern districts of Tamil Nadu. The bench has [[Kanyakumari district|Kanyakumari]], [[Tirunelveli district|Tirunelveli]], [[Thoothukudi district|Thoothukudi]], [[Tenkasi district|Tenkasi]], [[Madurai district|Madurai]], [[Dindigul district|Dindigul]], [[Ramanathapuram district|Ramanathapuram]], [[Virudhunagar district|Virudhunagar]], [[Theni district|Theni]], [[Sivaganga district|Sivaganga]], [[Pudukottai district|Pudukottai]], [[Tanjavur district|Thanjavur]], [[Tiruchi district|Tiruchirappalli]] and [[Karur district|Karur]] districts under its jurisdiction.

The 107-acre campus of the Court is one of the largest court campuses in the country, Second Largest in the world after the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]], London and the four-storey administrative building attracts hundreds of litigants every day. The court complex has 12 court halls, furnished on the model of the court halls in the Supreme Court, the [[Delhi High Court|Delhi]] and the Madras High Courts.

The court, since its inauguration on 24 July 2004, has perked up the legal process in the southern districts and has cultivated a large number of social activists, who vouch for the interest of the public though their public interest litigations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-editorialfeatures/the-green-bench-that-has-delivered-landmark-judgements/article4915657.ece|title=The 'green bench' that has delivered landmark judgements|work=The Hindu|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727165051/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-editorialfeatures/the-green-bench-that-has-delivered-landmark-judgements/article4915657.ece|archive-date=27 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==List of Chief Justices==
[[File:Thomas strange house madras1811.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Watercolour "Holy men outside Sir Thomas Strange house." In 1800, Strange became the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of [[Fort St. George]] (Madras), [[British India]].]]

===Supreme Court===
{| class="wikitable" width="60%"
!Chief Justice
!Term
|-
|[[Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange|Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange]]|| 1801–1816
|-
|[[John Henry Newbolt|Sir John Henry Newbolt]]|| 1816–1820
|-
|[[Edmond Stanley|Sir Edmond Stanley]]|| 1820–1825
|-
|[[Ralph Palmer|Sir Ralph Palmer]]|| 1825–1835
|-
|Sir [[Robert Buckley Comyn]]|| 1835–1842
|-
|Sir [[Edward John Gambier]]|| 1842–1850
|-
|Sir [[Christopher Rawlinson (judge)|Christopher Rawlinson]] ||1850–1859
|-
|[[Sir Henry Davison]] ||1859–1860
|-
|Sir [[Colley Harman Scotland]]|| 1860–1861
|}

===High Court (British Administration)===
{| class="wikitable" width="60%"
!Chief Justice
!Term
|-
|Sir [[Colley Harman Scotland]]|| 1861–1871
|-
|[[Adam Bittleston|Sir Adam Bittleston]]|| 1866–1867 (acting)
|-
|Sir [[Walter Morgan (judge)|Walter Morgan]]|| 1871–1879
|-
|Sir [[Charles Arthur Turner]]|| 1879–1885
|-
|[[Arthur Collins (judge)|Sir Arthur John Hammond Collins]] ||1885–1898
|-
|[[C. A. White|Charles Arnold White]]|| 1899–1914
|-
|[[J. E. P. Wallis|John Edward Power Wallis]]|| 1914–1921
|-
|Sir [[Walter George Salis Schwabe]]|| 1921–1924
|-
|Sir [[Murray Coutts-Trotter]] ||1924–1929
|-
|Sir [[Owen Beasley|Horace Owen Compton Beasley]]|| 1929–1937
|-
|[[Lionel Leach (judge)|Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach]]|| 1937–1947
|-
|[[Frederick Gentle|Sir Frederick William Gentle]]|| 1947–1948
|}

===High Court (Indian Administration)===
{{Politics of Tamil Nadu}}
{| class="wikitable" width="62%"
!S. No.
!Chief Justice
!Date of Appointment
!Date of Retirement
|-
!1
| [[P. V. Rajamannar]]
|1948
|10 May 1961
|-
!2
| [[S. Ramachandra Iyer]]
| 10 May 1961
|23 November 1964
|-
!3
| [[Palagani Chandra Reddy]]
|23 November 1964
|1 July 1966
|-
!4
| [[M. Anantanarayanan]]
|1 July 1966
|1 May 1969
|-
!5
| [[Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami]]
|2 May 1969
|7 April 1976
|-
!6
| Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam
|8 April 1976
|3 January 1977
|-
!7
|Padmanbhapillay Govindan Nair
|4 January 1977
|28 May 1978
|-
!8
| Tayi Ramaprasada Rao
|29 May 1978
|6 November 1979
|-
!9
| [[M. M. Ismail|Muhammad Kassim Muhammad Ismail]]
|6 November 1979
|12 March 1982
|-
!10
| Ballabh Narayan Singh
|12 March 1982
|2 April 1984
|-
!11
| [[Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar]]
|2 April 1984
|19 October 1989
|-
!12
| [[Adarsh Sein Anand]]
|1 November 1989
|16 June 1992
|-
!13
| [[Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar]]
|15 June 1992
|1 July 1993
|-
!14
| Kudarikoti Annadanayya Swamy
|1 July 1993
|7 July 1997
|-
!15
| [[Manmohan Singh Liberhan]]
|7 July 1997
|24 May 1999
|-
!16
| Ashok Chhotelal Agarwal
|24 May 1999
|9 September 1999
|-
!17
| [[K. G. Balakrishnan]]
|9 September 1999
|13 September 2000
|-
!18
| [[Nagendra Kumar Jain]]
|13 January 2000
|12 September 2001
|-
!19
| [[B. Subhashan Reddy]]
|12 September 2001
|28 November 2004
|-
!20
| [[Markandey Katju]]
|28 November 2004
|12 November 2005
|-
!21
| [[Ajit Prakash Shah]]
|12 November 2005
|11 May 2008
|-
!22
| [[Asok Kumar Ganguly]]
|21 May 2008
|9 March 2009<ref>{{cite news | title = Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly to be Chief Justice of Madras High Court | newspaper = The India Post | date = 21 May 2008 | url = http://www.theindiapost.com/2008/05/21/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly-to-be-chief-justice-of-madras-high-court/ | access-date = 26 November 2009 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110717004938/http://www.theindiapost.com/2008/05/21/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly-to-be-chief-justice-of-madras-high-court/ | archive-date = 17 July 2011 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
|-
!23
| [[Hemant Laxman Gokhale]]
|9 March 2009
|10 June 2010
|-
!24
| [[M Y Iqbal]]
|11 June 2010
|6 February 2013
|-
!Acting
| [[Rajesh Kumar Agrawal]]
|7 February 2013
|23 October 2013
|-
!25
| [[Rajesh Kumar Agrawal]]
|24 October 2013
|12 February 2014
|-
!Acting
| [[Satish K. Agnihotri]]
|13 February 2014
|25 July 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/skaj.htm|title=Madras High Court|website=www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713204944/http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/skaj.htm|archive-date=13 July 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
!26
| [[Sanjay Kishan Kaul]]
|26 July 2014
|15 February 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cjhc.htm|title=Madras High Court|website=www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509055050/http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cjhc.htm|archive-date=9 May 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
!Acting
| [[Huluvadi G. Ramesh]]
|16 February 2017
|4 April 2017
|-
!27
| [[Indira Banerjee]]
|5 April 2017
|6 August 2018
|-
!Acting
| [[Huluvadi G. Ramesh]]
|7 August 2018
|11 August 2018
|-
!28
| [[Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani]]
|12 August 2018
|6 September 2019
|-
!Acting
| [[Vineet Kothari]]
|21 September 2019
|10 November 2019
|-
!29
| [[Amreshwar Pratap Sahi]]
|11 November 2019
|31 December 2020
|-
!Acting
|[[Vineet Kothari]]
|1 January 2021
|3 January 2021
|-
!30
| [[Sanjib Banerjee]]
|4 January 2021
| ''Incumbent''
|-
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|India|Law|Architecture}}
* [[High Courts of India]]
* [[Architecture of Chennai]]
* [[Heritage structures in Chennai]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/ High Court of Madras web site.]

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