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{{short description|High court in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox court
| court_name = Madras High Court
| native_name = 
| 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}}
| location = Principal Seat: [[Chennai]] <br />
Circuit Benches: [[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]]
| appealsto = [[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 = 22 September 2022
| termend =
| chiefjudgename = [[T. Raja (judge)|T. Raja]]<br>(Acting)
}}

The '''Madras High Court''' is a [[High Courts of India|High Court]] in India. It has [[appellate jurisdiction]] over the state of [[Tamil Nadu]] and the [[union territory]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. It is located in [[Chennai]], and is the third oldest 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> and [[Bombay High Court]] in Mumbai. The Madras High Court is one of three high courts of colonial India established in the three Presidency Towns of [[Madras]], [[Bombay]] and [[Calcutta]] by [[letters patent]] granted by [[Queen Victoria]], dated 26 June 1862. It exercises [[original jurisdiction]] over the city of Chennai, 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, second only to the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]].

The High Court consists of 74 judges and a chief justice.<ref name=aboutMHC /><ref>{{cite news|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|newspaper=The Hindu|date=25 September 2016|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>

==History==
From 1817 to 1862, the Supreme Court of Madras was opposite the [[Chennai Beach railway station]]. From 1862 to 1892, the High Court was also housed there. 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 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
|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 Madras (Chennai), Bombay (Mumbai), and 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 Queen Victoria under the authority of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British parliament]]'s [[Indian High Courts Act 1861]]. The three courts are unique, established under British [[royal charter]] in contrast with the other high courts, which were established under the Indian Constitution. The [[Constitution of India]] recognises 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 included Holloway, Innes, and Morgan. The first Indian to sit on 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 jurisdiction|Original Side jurisdiction]] reform in favor of Indian practitioners as early as the 1870s.

The 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 city was renamed from Madras to Chennai in 1996, the Court continued as the Madras High Court. The [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] 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}}

==Court complex==
[[File:A building in Chennai.JPG|thumb|right|Madras High Court, Chennai]]
The High Court complex is located in the southern end of [[George Town, Chennai|George Town]]. The building was constructed after relocating temples on the land. The building now used exclusively by the High Court was built to also house the Courts of Small Causes and the City Civil Court. These were subsequently shifted to other 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
|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>

The High Court building is an example of [[Indo-Saracenic]] [[architect]]ure. Construction began in October 1888 and was completed in 1892 following the design prepared by J. W. Brassington,<ref name="TH_ATimelessEdifice"/> and later under the guidance of 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.

Brassington initially prepared a plan to construct a building with 11 court halls at an estimate of {{INR}}945,000. 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 lawyers’ chambers was added to the plan, with a first floor walkway to connect it to the main building, increasing the budget to {{INR}}1,298,163. Complementing a 125-feet-tall standalone [[lighthouse]] that was already on the site, a dioptric light was built on the 142-feet-high main tower of the building, raising the tower's height to 175 feet.<ref name="TH_ATimelessEdifice"/>

Save for the steel girders and some ornamental tiles, almost all the material for the construction was procured locally. Brick and terracotta were brought from government brickyards. Most of the construction was executed by local artisans trained at the School of Arts.<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 few Indian buildings to have been damaged by a German attack.

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

The boundaries of the complex are marked by 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
|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 Acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court is [[Munishwar Nath Bhandari]]. The court houses 57 [[judge]]s, including the Chief Justice. They 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 began functioning in 2004.

The vestiges of the colonial High Court characterise the premises. Justices of the Madras High Court are led by orderlies who bear a [[ceremonial mace]] made of silver. Most High Courts and the Supreme Court of India either never had the practice or abandoned it.<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>

== Related publications ==

=== ''Madras Law Journal'' ===
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. It started in 1891.
[[File:The High Courts.jpeg|thumb|The High Courts, c. 1905]]

The Saturday Club met every week. It was started at the house of the Vakil Bar's senior member [[Sir S. Subramania Iyer]] in [[Mylapore]] in 1888. All leading members of the Madras Bar took part. At one meeting, it was decided to start The ''Madras Law Journal'', which was inspired by other newly established periodicals such as ''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:

{{Blockquote|text=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.}}

The ''Madras Law Journal'' is known for its quickness and reporting accuracy and its discriminating selection of cases to be reported. It occupies a premier place among Indian legal periodicals.

=== ''Madras Weekly Notes'' (criminal and civil) ===
''Madras Weekly Notes'' is a law journal reporting criminal judgements of the Madras High Court from 1910 to till date.

Citations are formatted as, e.g., "1929 1 MWN(Cr.) 1", where (left to right) 1929 is the year, 1 is the volume, "MWN(Cr.)" is the abbreviated journal name, and "1" is the page number.

=== Journals ===
Journals that record cases include ''Current Tamil Nadu Cases,'' ''Current Writ Cases,'' and ''Tamil Nadu Motor Accident Cases''.

==Madurai Bench==
Established in 2004, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court handles cases in the fourteen southern districts of Tamil Nadu, as the court is located in the far-northern capital. The bench is located in [[Madurai]], and has the [[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.

Its 107-acre campus is one of the largest in the country, It is second largest in the world after the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]]. 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 Court.

The court, since its inauguration on 24 July 2004, has accelerated the legal process in the southern districts.<ref>{{cite news|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|date=15 July 2013|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|last1=Vandhana|first1=?. M.}}</ref>

==List of Chief Justices==

===Supreme Court===
{| class="wikitable" width="60%"
!#
!Chief Justice
!Term
|-
!1
|[[Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange|Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange]]|| 1801–1816
|-
!2
|[[John Henry Newbolt|Sir John Henry Newbolt]]|| 1816–1820
|-
!3
|[[Edmond Stanley|Sir Edmond Stanley]]|| 1820–1825
|-
!4
|Sir [[Ralph Palmer (Judge)|Ralph Palmer]]|| 1825–1835
|-
!5
|Sir [[Robert Buckley Comyn]]|| 1835–1842
|-
!6
|Sir [[Edward John Gambier]]|| 1842–1850
|-
!7
|Sir [[Christopher Rawlinson (judge)|Christopher Rawlinson]] ||1850–1859
|-
!8
|[[Sir Henry Davison]] ||1859–1860
|-
!9
|Sir [[Colley Harman Scotland]]|| 1860–1861
|}

===High Court (British Administration)===
{| class="wikitable" width="60%"
!#
!Chief Justice
!Term
|-
!9
|Sir [[Colley Harman Scotland]]|| 1861–1871
|-
!10
|Sir [[Walter Morgan (judge)|Walter Morgan]]|| 1871–1879
|-
!11
|Sir [[Charles Arthur Turner]]|| 1879–1885
|-
!12
|[[Arthur Collins (judge)|Sir Arthur John Hammond Collins]] ||1885–1898
|-
!13
|[[C. A. White|Charles Arnold White]]|| 1899–1914
|-
!14
|[[J. E. P. Wallis|John Edward Power Wallis]]|| 1914–1921
|-
!15
|Sir [[Walter George Salis Schwabe]]|| 1921–1924
|-
!16
|Sir [[Murray Coutts-Trotter]] ||1924–1929
|-
!17
|Sir [[Owen Beasley|Horace Owen Compton Beasley]]|| 1929–1937
|-
!18
|[[Lionel Leach (judge)|Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach]]|| 1937–1947
|-
!19
|[[Frederick Gentle|Sir Fredrick William Gentle]]|| 1947–1948
|}

===High Court (Indian Administration)===
{{Politics of Tamil Nadu}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!S. No.
!Chief Justice
!Date of Appointment
!Date of Retirement
|-
!20
| [[P. V. Rajamannar]]
|22 April 1948
|9 May 1961
|-
!21
| [[S. Ramachandra Iyer]]
|16 September 1961
|1 November 1964
|-
!22
| [[Palagani Chandra Reddy]]
|15 February 1965
|30 June 1966
|-
!23
| [[M. Anantanarayanan]]
|1 July 1966
|30 April 1969
|-
!24
| [[Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami]]
|1 May 1969
|11 March 1976
|-
!25
| [[Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam]]
|8 April 1976
|2 January 1977
|-
!26
|Padmanbhapillay Govindan Nair
|3 January 1977
|28 May 1978
|-
!27
| Tayi Ramaprasada Rao
|29 May 1978
|5 November 1979
|-
!28
| [[M. M. Ismail|Muhammad Kassim Muhammad Ismail]]
|6 November 1979
|9 July 1981
|-
!29
| Ballabh Narayan Singh
|12 March 1982
|24 January 1984
|-
!30
| [[Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar]]
|2 April 1984
|13 March 1988
|-
!31
|[[Shanmughasundaram Mohan]]
|19 October 1989
|24 October 1989
|-
!32
| [[Adarsh Sein Anand]]
|1 November 1989
|17 November 1991
|-
!33
| [[Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar]]
|15 June 1992
|14 November 1992
|-
!34
| Kudarikoti Annadanayya Swamy
|1 July 1993
|19 March 1997
|-
!35
| [[Manmohan Singh Liberhan]]
|7 July 1997
|27 December 1998
|-
!36
| [[Ashok Chhotelal Agarwal]]
|24 May 1999
|26 August 1999
|-
!37
| [[K. G. Balakrishnan]]
|9 September 1999
|15 June 2000
|-
!38
| [[Nagendra Kumar Jain]]
|13 September 2000
|30 August 2001
|-
!39
| [[B. Subhashan Reddy]]
|12 September 2001
|20 November 2004
|-
!40
| [[Markandey Katju]]
|28 November 2004
|10 October 2005
|-
!41
| [[Ajit Prakash Shah]]
|12 November 2005
|9 May 2008
|-
!42
| [[Asok Kumar Ganguly]]
|19 May 2008
|15 December 2008<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>
|-
!43
| [[Hemant Laxman Gokhale]]
|9 March 2009
|28 April 2010
|-
!44
| [[M Y Iqbal|M. Y. Eqbal]]
|11 June 2010
|21 December 2012
|-
!45
| [[Rajesh Kumar Agrawal]]
|24 October 2013
|16 February 2014
|-
!46
| [[Sanjay Kishan Kaul]]
|26 July 2014
|16 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>
|-
!47
| [[Indira Banerjee]]
|5 April 2017
|6 August 2018
|-
!48
| [[Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani]]
|12 August 2018
|6 September 2019
|-
!49
| [[Amreshwar Pratap Sahi]]
|11 November 2019
|31 December 2020
|-
!50
| [[Sanjib Banerjee]]
|4 January 2021
|16 November 2021
|-
!51
| [[Munishwar Nath Bhandari]]
| 14 February 2022
| 12 September 2022
|-
|}

==Judges==
The Madras High Court is permitted to have a maximum of 75 judges, of which 56 may be permanently appointed and 19 may be additionally appointed. It currently has 54 judges.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Madras High Court - Profile of Chief Justice|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cjhc.html|access-date=2019-02-04|website=www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in}}</ref>

=== Permanent judges ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Judge
!Date of joining
!Date of retirement
|-
!1
|[[T. Raja (judge)|T. Raja]]'''(ACJ)'''
|{{dts|2009|3|31|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2023|5|24|format=dmy}}
|-
!2
|Paresh Ravishankar Upadhyay
|{{dts|2011|11|21|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2022|12|13|format=dmy}}
|-
!3
|Panzhayanur Narayanan Prakash
|{{dts|2013|10|25|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2023|1|11|format=dmy}}
|-
!4
|S. Vaidyanathan
|{{dts|2013|10|25|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2024|8|16|format=dmy}}
|-
!5
|R. Mahadevan
|{{dts|2013|10|25|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|6|9|format=dmy}}
|-
!6
|V. M. Velumani
|{{dts|2013|12|20|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2024|4|5|format=dmy}}
|-
!7
|D. Krishnakumar
|{{dts|2016|4|7|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|5|21|format=dmy}}
|-
!8
|S. S. Sundar
|{{dts|2016|4|7|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|5|2|format=dmy}}
|-
!9
|R. Subramanian
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|7|24|format=dmy}}
|-
!10
|M. Sundar
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2028|7|18|format=dmy}}
|-
!11
|R. Suresh Kumar
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2026|5|28|format=dmy}}
|-
!12
|J. Nisha Banu
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2028|9|17|format=dmy}}
|-
!13
|M. S. Ramesh
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|12|27|format=dmy}}
|-
!14
|S. M. Subramaniam
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2027|5|30|format=dmy}}
|-
!15
|Dr. Anita Sumanth
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2032|4|14|format=dmy}}
|-
!16
|P. Velmurugan
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2027|6|8|format=dmy}}
|-
!17
|Dr. G. Jayachandran
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2027|3|31|format=dmy}}
|-
!18
|[[C. V. Karthikeyan]]
|{{dts|2016|10|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2026|12|13|format=dmy}}
|-
!19
|R. M. T. Teeka Raman
|{{dts|2016|11|16|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|6|8|format=dmy}}
|-
!20
|N. Sathish Kumar
|{{dts|2016|11|16|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2029|5|5|format=dmy}}
|-
!21
|N. Seshasayee
|{{dts|2016|11|16|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|1|7|format=dmy}}
|-
!22
|V. Bhavani Subbaroyan
|{{dts|2017|6|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|5|16|format=dmy}}
|-
!23
|A. D. Jagadish Chandira
|{{dts|2017|6|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2028|2|14|format=dmy}}
|-
!24
|G. R. Swaminathan
|{{dts|2017|6|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2030|5|31|format=dmy}}
|-
!25
|Abdul Quddhose
|{{dts|2017|6|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2031|9|7|format=dmy}}
|-
!26
|M. Dhandapani
|{{dts|2017|6|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2030|4|14|format=dmy}}
|-
!27
|Pondicherry Daivasigamani Audikesavalu
|{{dts|2017|6|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2032|12|29|format=dmy}}
|-
!28
|R. Tharani
|{{dts|2017|12|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2023|6|9|format=dmy}}
|-
!29
|R. Hemalatha
|{{dts|2017|12|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|4|30|format=dmy}}
|-
!30
|P. T. Asha
|{{dts|2018|6|4|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2028|8|21|format=dmy}}
|-
!31
|N. Nirmal Kumar
|{{dts|2018|6|4|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2027|11|22|format=dmy}}
|-
!32
|[[N Anand Venkatesh|N. Anand Venkatesh]]
|{{dts|2018|6|4|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2031|7|3|format=dmy}}
|-
!33
|G. K. Ilanthiraiyan
|{{dts|2018|6|4|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2032|7|8|format=dmy}}
|-
!34
|Krishnan Ramasmy
|{{dts|2018|6|4|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2030|6|2|format=dmy}}
|-
!35
|C. Saravanan
|{{dts|2018|6|4|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2033|11|30|format=dmy}}
|-
!36
|B. Pugalendhi
|{{dts|2018|11|20|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2029|5|24|format=dmy}}
|-
!37
|Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy
|{{dts|2019|2|22|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2028|10|1|format=dmy}}
|-
!38
|Govindarajulu Chandrasekharan
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2024|5|30|format=dmy}}
|-
!39
|Veerasamy Sivagnanam
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|5|31|format=dmy}}
|-
!40
|Ilangovan Ganesan
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|6|4|format=dmy}}
|-
!41
|Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|7|17|format=dmy}}
|-
!42
|Murali Shankar Kuppuraju
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2030|5|30|format=dmy}}
|-
!43
|Manjula Ramaraju Nalliah
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2026|2|15|format=dmy}}
|-
!44
|Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2030|6|18|format=dmy}}
|-
!
|''Vacant''
|
|
|}

===Additional judges===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Judge
!Date of joining
|-
!1
|A. A. Nakkiran
|{{dts|2020|12|3|format=dmy}}
|-
!2
|Sundaram Srimathy
|{{dts|2021|10|20|format=dmy}}
|-
!3
|D. Bharatha Chakravarthy
|{{dts|2021|10|20|format=dmy}}
|-
!4
|R. Vijayakumar
|{{dts|2021|10|20|format=dmy}}
|-
!5
|Mohammed Shaffiq
|{{dts|2021|10|20|format=dmy}}
|-
!6
|J. Sathya Narayana Prasad
|{{dts|2021|10|29|format=dmy}}
|-
!7
|Nidumolu Mala
|{{dts|2022|3|28|format=dmy}}
|-
!8
|S. Sounthar
|{{dts|2022|3|28|format=dmy}}
|-
!9
|Sunder Mohan
|{{dts|2022|6|6|format=dmy}}
|-
!10
|Kabali Kumaresh Babu
|{{dts|2022|6|6|format=dmy}}
|-
!
|''Vacant''
|
|}

==See also==

* [[High Courts of India]]
* [[Architecture of Chennai]]
* [[Heritage structures in Chennai]]

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
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* {{Official|http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/ }}

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