Ferdino Rebello

{{short description|Indian politician and lawyer (born 1949)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ferdino Rebello

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|8|31|df=yes}}

| office = Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly

| image =

| caption = Official portrait in 1977

| term_start = 1977

| term_end = 1980

| predecessor = Roque Santana Fernandes

| party = Janata Party

| successor = Jose Mario Vaz

| alma_mater = Government Law College, Mumbai (LL.B)

}}

Ferdino Rebello (born 31 August 1949), is an Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court,{{cite web|title=Website, High Court of Allahabad|url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/service/judgeDetail.jsp?id=156|accessdate=24 November 2011}} former judge of the Bombay High Court,{{cite web|title=Bombay High Court Website|url=http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/judges/Rebello%20F.I..html}} and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu.{{cite news|title=Time of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/House-congratulates-Chief-Justice-Ferdino-Rebello/articleshow/6198823.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709174140/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-07-22/goa/28293302_1_high-court-legislative-assembly-goan-legislators |url-status=live |archive-date=9 July 2012 |work=The Times of India| date=22 July 2010}}

Education

Rebello completed his LL.B. from the Government Law College, Mumbai and thereafter practiced in the High Court of Bombay at Goa. He also was a lecturer in law at the Salgaonkar Law College from 1975 to 1977.

Career

Rebello was the president of Goa High Court Bar Association from 1984 to 1996 and was designated a Senior Advocate in 1995.{{cite web|title=Allahabad High Court Website|url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/service/judgeDetail.jsp?id=156}} He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Goa in 1977 on a Janata Party ticket.{{cite web|title=Poll Results 1977|url=http://votematter.com/IndianElection/Assembly-Elections/AssemblyConstituencyResults.aspx?AssemblyConstituencyId=5069194947152656368&AssemblyElectionId=4901358338192371774}} In 1989, he unsuccessfully contested and lost parliamentary elections on a Janata Party ticket to Eduardo Falerio and has been inactive in politics ever since.{{cite journal|last=Rubinoff|first=Arthur|title=The Defeat of Eduardo Falerio|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|date=27 September 1997|pages=2469|jstor=4405899|volume=32}}

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