Dipesh Mehta VS Gerald Shirley

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G. S. PATEL, GAURI GODSE
Dipesh Mehta – Appellant
Versus
Gerald Shirley – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Rumi Mirza, Advocate, Kaushal Thakker, Advocate, Geetika Rajpa, Advocate, Prashant P.Kulkarni, Advocate, Aditya Pratap, Advocate, Chirag Mody, Advocate, Gaurav Mehta, Advocate, Prachi Garg, Advocate, Ashwini Hariharan, Advocate, Shivani Khanwilkar, Advocate, Shiraz Rustomjee, Advocate, Archit Jayakar, Advocate, Divya Tyagi, Advocate, Pooja Yadav, Advocate, Parita Mashruwala, Advocate, Himanshu B.Takke, Advocate, Sharan Jagtiani, Advocate, Priyank Kapadia, Advocate, Siddharth Joshi, Advocate

Table of Content
1. overview of club's legal status and history (Para 1 , 2 , 5 , 6)
2. context of membership dispute (Para 3 , 4 , 8 , 9 , 10)
3. challenges to jurisdiction in suspension suit (Para 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 19)
4. summary of appeals and orders (Para 20 , 22 , 24)
5. final orders and directions (Para 92 , 94 , 95)

JUDGMENT

G.S.PATEL, J. - A. BACKGROUND & LITIGATION HISTORY : This common order and judgment will dispose of a group of Appeals and their associated Notices of Motion. There are four Appeals before us:

(i) Appeal No. 158 of 2017, where the Appellant is now only one Dipesh Mehta (there were originally three others, but they have withdrawn from the Appeal and accepted the impugned order) is against an interim order (SC Gupte J) dtd. 29/10/2015 in a Notice of Motion in Suit No 573 of 2014;

(ii) Appeal No. 347 of 2016 by one Lalit Agarwal against the same order of Gupte J in a Notice of Motion in Suit No. 573 of 2014.

(iii) Appeal No. 323 of 2014 is by Dipesh Mehta against an order of 7/5/2014 (Mrs Rs. Dalvi J) in a Notice of Motion in Suit No 573 of 2014.

(iv) Appeal No. 324 of 2014, again by Dipesh Mehta (and originally others) also against the order of 7/5/2014 in a No

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G. S. PATEL, GAURI GODSE
Dipesh Mehta – Appellant
Versus
Gerald Shirley – Respondent