Sir Basil Scott (1859 — 1926) was aChief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
Sir Basil Scott was the son of Henry Scott educated atBalliol College, Oxford. He passed B.A. in 1882 and M.A. in 1886. He was called to BarInner Temple and came out as a barrister to practice in the Bombay High Court in 1884.[1]
Scott's uncle Basil Lang was the Advocate General and leading in practitioner of theBombay High Court. Scott became acting Advocate-General in 1899 and was also appointed permanentAdvocate-General of Bombay. In 1906 he was elevated as Puisne Judge, and after retirement of SirLawrence Hugh Jenkins, appointed as Chief Justice in 1908. It is known that some of his decisions were reversed by thePrivy Council and he had to some extent, the prevailing prejudices of the Anglo-Indians of his time.[2] Scott was the member of theRowlatt Commission[3] and also the head of Special Tribunal under the Special Tribunal Act in 1910 to deal with the case againstVinayak Damodar Savarkar.[4]