Goan Judge retires as Allahabad CJ BY JUINO D'SOUZA
Justice Ferdino Rebello, who served for 15 years in the higher judiciary, retired on Saturday as Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court which post he held for 13 months.
Earlier he as served judge of the Bombay High Court from April 15, 1996, till his elevation as chief justice on June 2010. He was also elected to the Goa legislative Assembly in 1977 and served as MLA from Cuncolim constituency.
He is the second Goan to become chief justice after Justice G D Kamat, who was chief justice of Gujarat High Court.
There were high expectations that Justice Rebello would be elevated to the Supreme Court and in that case, he would have been be the first Goan to occupy such a high post.
Born in Goa on July 31, 1949, Justice Rebello hailed from Cuncolim. He passed his LL.B from the prestigious Government Law College, Mumbai and enrolled as Advocate in 1973.
He practiced in the Judicial Commissioners Court at Panjim from 1973 to 1982 and then at the Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court from 1982 till his elevation as high court judge.
He was appointed as Additional Judge, Bombay High Court, for two years and was made permanent judge from April 1998 and took oath as Chief Justice of Allahabad High court on June 26, 2010.
He had a thriving practice at Goa and was considered an authority in service matters and also constitutional, municipal and panchayat cases. He worked as part-time lecturer at the Salgaocar Law College from 1975 to 1977. He was President of the High Court Bar Association in Goa from 1994 to 1996 and was designated as Senior Advocate in December 1995.
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