Hon’ble Justice H L Gokhale, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India.

Justice Hemant Laxman Gokhale, M.A., LL.M. : Was born on March 10, 1949. He was enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Maharashtra on January 20, 1973 and practised in Civil, Constitutional, Labour and Service Laws and specialised in Industrial and Service matters. He worked as an Assistant Government Pleader to the State of Maharashtra in the Bombay High Court on the Original and Appellate Sides during 1984 to 1989. He worked as part-time Professor of Law at the Government Law College, Bombay in 1977-84. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on January 20, 1994 and transferred to the Gujarat High Court on February 4, 1994. He was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Gujarat High Court on January 23, 1995. He was transferred back to the Bombay High Court on February 25, 1999. He has appointed Acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court from 12th January 2007

Justice P V Reddy, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India

Justice Reddy retired as a Supreme Court judge in August 2005. The major judgments delivered by him include the 2001 Parliament Attack case and the bench headed by him upheld the death sentence of Mohammad Afzal. He was earlier Chief Justice of the Karnataka Hight Court. Justice P.V. Reddy retired as an apex court judge on 10 August 2010, also served as the chairperson of the Law Commission of India, with a second post-retirement job as chairperson of the Authority for Advance Rulings (an adjudicatory agency for tax matters)

Roshan Dalvi had completed B.Com. in 1973 with Specialisation in Business Management and LL.M. in 1978 from University of Bombay. She was appointed Fellow of Government Law College and awarded Merit Scholarship of University of Bombay (LL.M).


She practiced as a counsel on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court from August 1976 to September 1989 in Civil and Corporate matters. She was a visiting faculty at The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies for Corporate Law between 1979 and 1989.

She was appointed Judge, Bombay City Civil and Sessions Court in September 1989, served as Principal Judge, Family Court, Mumbai from July 2004 to December 2004 and elevated to the Bombay High Court Bench in June, 2005.

She has conducted workshops for Judicial Officers on various legal subjects at the National and State Judicial Academies.

She was selected to participate in the Judicial Training Programme in Gender and Law at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK in 1996 and is a Member of the Association of British Scholars (ABS), Mumbai Chapter for undertaking various socio-legal programmes.

She was invited to attend the meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) at Vienna, Austria for the Protocol on human trafficking in 2006.

She has attended the Intensive Study Programme (ISP) in Judicial Training and Education at the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute (CJEI) at Halifax, Canada in 2009.

She was invited to the Annual Conference on South Asia to deliver the key-note address on Gender Perspectives in the Indian Constitution at the University of Wisconsin, USA in 2013.

Retired on 06/11/2015

Justice Pradeep Nandrajog

Justice Pradeep Nandrajog was born on 24th February 1958. After graduating from Delhi University in the year 1978, he obtained Bachelor's Degree in Law from Delhi University in the year 1981 and was enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in the year 1981. His practice of Law included Arbitration, Commercial, Service, Election, Land Revenue, Company and Miscellaneous Writ Matters. He was a Counsel for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for about 6 years and was the nominated Counsel for the Election Commission of the Government of NCT Delhi over about 2 years.

He was elevated as an Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court on 20th December 2002 and became a Permanent Judge on 16th April 2004.

Elevated as the Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court w.e.f. 02.04.2017

Assumed the office of Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on 7th April, 2019

Dr. Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi is the former Judge of Bombay High Court, having just retired, with experience of more than three decades of working as Judicial Officer in various capacities as Principal Judge of City Civil and Sessions Court Mumbai, District and Sessions Court at Pune, Special court for trial of cases of atrocities against women ,Principal Magistrate of Juvenile Justice Board. She has also worked as Judge of Family Court at Pune and then as the Registrar General of Bombay High Court.

She has done her Masters and Doctorate in Laws from Pune University in the subject of “child sexual abuse : from socio legal perspectives” and presently on the panel of Examiners for Ph. D. candidates in Mumbai University.

She was the Joint Director and thereafter the Officiating Director of Maharashtra Judicial Academy and has conducted training programs for Judicial Officers, Police Persons, Public Prosecutors, Members of Bar, Probation Officers and other stake holders in National and State Judicial Academies and law colleges.

She has acted as resource person in national and international conferences. Her areas of special interests are Juvenile Justice, Gender Justice, Human Rights and Constitutional law. She has authored various training modules, articles and books.

She has the Distinction of being the British Scholar in the subject of Gender and Law and having Fellowship of Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute in Canada in Judicial education .

With such a vast experience of Judicial work of 31 long years, both on original and appellate side, from lowest rung to highest cadre, presently she is busy in academic pursuits, Arbitration, Consultation and Mediation work.