M. Jagannadha Rao: Difference between revisions

'''M. Jagannadha Rao''' [[BSc]], [[L.L.B.]] (born 2 December 1935) was [[Chief Justice]] of [[Kerala High Court]] and [[Delhi High Court]] and Judge of [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hc.ap.nic.in/aphc/mjrj.html |title=Honourable Sri Justice |publisher=Hc.ap.nic.in |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

He was born on 2 December 1935 at [[Rajahmundry]], [[Andhra Pradesh]].  He has passed BSc(Hons.) from [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College]], Madras and L.L.B. from [[Osmania University]]. He has enrolled as an advocate in 1960.  He has practiced in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh for 22 years.  He has worked with his father Justice [[M. S. Ramachandra Rao]] and later with his paternal uncle Justice [[M. Krishna Rao]].  He was appointed as Additional Judge of High Court of Andhra Pradesh on 29 September 1982 and as Permanent Judge on 29 November 1982. He was appointed as Chief Justice of [[Kerala High Court]] in August 1991, as Chief Justice of [[Delhi High Court]] in March 1994 and as Judge of [[Supreme Court of India]] on 23 March 1997.  He has retired as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 2 December 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/mjrao.htm |title=Former Jugdes |publisher=Supreme Court of India |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> His son Justice M. S. Ramachandra Rao is currently a Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hc.ap.nic.in/aphc/msrj.html |title=The Hon'Ble Sri Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao |publisher=Hc.ap.nic.in |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

He was Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Sixteenth [[Law Commission of India]] from 2001 to 2003 and Chairman of the Seventeenth Law Commission of India from 2003 to 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/main.htm#LIST_OF_REPORTS_FORWARDED_%281955-1999%29 |title=Back to Law Commission Home Page |publisher=Lawcommissionofindia.nic.in |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> He has submitted about 26 Reports, starting from 176th Report to the 201st Report, on a variety of legal issues of contemporary relevance.

He is a member of the Academic Councils of the [[National Law University]], [[Bangalore]] and [[Jodhpur]], [[Indian Law Institute]], [[New Delhi]] and Chairman of the Academic Council, [[Army Institute of Law]], [[Chandigarh]].{{cn|date=October 2021}}