Honorific-Prefix: | Justice |
Birth Name: | Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela |
Office: | Chief Justice of Bombay High Court |
Term Start: | 15 February 2016 |
Term End: | 10 August 2016 |
Office2: | 28th Chief Justice of Odisha High Court |
Term Start2: | 13 April 2015 |
Term End2: | 14 February 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Amitava Roy |
Successor2: | Vineet Saran |
Office3: | Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court |
Term Start3: | March 2013 |
Term End3: | 12 April 2015 |
Predecessor3: | K Shridhar Rao |
Successor3: | Subhro Kamal Mukherjee (A) |
Birth Date: | 1954 8, df=y |
Birth Place: | Rajkot, Gujarat, India |
Citizenship: | Indian |
Alma Mater: | Saurashtra University |
Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela (born 11 August 1954)[1] was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court[2] and former Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court[3] and Karnataka High Court.
Justice Waghela stood first from Saurashtra University in General LL.B. as well as in Special LL.B. in 1974 and 1975, respectively. He took his master's degree in law in 1976–77.[4] Waghela started his own practice in 1978. He practised in the Labour and Industrial courts. In 1999, he was called to the bench and assumed his office as Additional Judge of the High Court of Gujarat on 17 September 1999.