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Leila Seth (20 October 1930 – 5 May 2017) was an Indian judge who served as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court, Himachal Pradesh High Court, on 5 August 1991. [1]
Sep 30, 2023 · On August 5, 1991, Justice Leila Seth became the nation's first woman judge of the Delhi High Court. Born in October 1930 in Lucknow, she made history by becoming the first woman to achieve the top position in the London Bar exam of 1958. Her journey began when she became an advocate in 1959.
A former chief justice of the Himachal high court, she criticised the Supreme Court's decision to recriminalise homosexuality.
Leila Seth was considered a pioneering legal mind who was appointed the first woman judge of the Delhi HC in 1978. She lived with her husband Prem Nath Seth in her Noida Sector 15...
May 6, 2017 · Justice Leila Seth, the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court, died at the age of 86 on Friday night in Uttar Pradesh's Noida region. She is survived by her...
May 6, 2017 · Leila Seth, the first woman judge of the Delhi high court and member of the Justice J. S. Verma committee that was set up to re-look at rape laws in India after the December 16, 2012...
May 6, 2017 · Justice Leila Seth, the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state high court, has died aged 86. In her lifetime, she has headed and chaired numerous judicial and humanitarian institutions.
Justice Leila Seth, the first woman judge of the Delhi high court and mother of noted author Vikram Seth, died of cardiac arrest at her Noida residence on Friday night. She was 86.
May 6, 2017 · JUSTICE LEILA Seth (retired), the first woman chief justice of a high court in the country, died on Friday night. She was 86. “She died of cardiac seizure last night,” her son Shantum Seth said. Seth would be known for scaling many peaks in the legal field.
May 6, 2017 · Justice Leila Seth, mother of noted author Vikram Seth and first woman judge of the Delhi High Court, passed away on Friday night, reports news agency PTI. She was aged 86. Seth breathed her last at her residence in Noida. She was also the first woman to have become the Chief Justice of a state High Court.
