On the first episode of the Bombay Bar Association Podcast, our guest is Justice Sujata Manohar. She was the first woman Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and the Kerala High Court and only the second woman ever to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India. 

Justice Manohar takes us through the challenges she faced as one of the few women lawyers practising in the Bombay High Court when she joined the Bar in 1958; the pressure  of dealing with matters like riot commissions, reservations and human right abuses; and how the Vishaka Guidelines came to be - which are still relied upon today for dealing with harassment in the workplace.  

CREDITS:

Guest: Justice Sujata Manohar

Host: Sr. Adv. Nitin Thakker

Executive Director: Nitin Thakker

Special Thanks: Vishal Kanade & Firoz Bharucha

Concept & Creative Producer: Aditya Bapat

This is a Maed in India production.

Head of Production: Shaun Fanthome

Creative Head: Mae Mariyam Thomas

Audio Engineer & Editor: Kartik Kulkarni

Directed and edited by: Jishnu Guha

Camera Assistant: Ujjwal Lo

Research: Nirmal Bhansali

Assistant Producer: Meghna Gulati & Ruchi Sawardekar

Studio: Island City Studios