The practice of letter circulation has been reinstated by the Supreme Court. This is the first major change brought about by the new Chief Justice of India, Justice HL Dattu after his predecessor, Justice RM Lodha had stopped the practice. .As per the circular on the Supreme Court website,.“Counsel/Parties-in-person seeking adjournment of the matter, appearing in the Final Cause List, shall now submit-a letter/request, after getting the same noted by the counsel for other side with Assistant Registrar (Listing) for circulating the same to the Hon’ble Court at least two days in Advance from the appointed date of listing/hearing.Letters seeking adjournment in respect of matters to be listed on Monday shall be accepted by the Registry till previous Saturday upto 11.00 A.M. and those to be listed on Friday shall be accepted upto Wednesday till 3.00 PM.”.However, it is not clear whether a mentioning needs to be made before the appropriate Bench before circulating the letter, which was the practice earlier before Justice Lodha had scrapped the practice altogether..Further, senior lawyers were seen queued up in Justice Dattu’s court room today to mention matters. This is a marked departure from Justice Lodha’s tenure when the mentioning procedure was made stricter and senior counsels were disallowed from mentioning matters..Read the circular here.
The practice of letter circulation has been reinstated by the Supreme Court. This is the first major change brought about by the new Chief Justice of India, Justice HL Dattu after his predecessor, Justice RM Lodha had stopped the practice. .As per the circular on the Supreme Court website,.“Counsel/Parties-in-person seeking adjournment of the matter, appearing in the Final Cause List, shall now submit-a letter/request, after getting the same noted by the counsel for other side with Assistant Registrar (Listing) for circulating the same to the Hon’ble Court at least two days in Advance from the appointed date of listing/hearing.Letters seeking adjournment in respect of matters to be listed on Monday shall be accepted by the Registry till previous Saturday upto 11.00 A.M. and those to be listed on Friday shall be accepted upto Wednesday till 3.00 PM.”.However, it is not clear whether a mentioning needs to be made before the appropriate Bench before circulating the letter, which was the practice earlier before Justice Lodha had scrapped the practice altogether..Further, senior lawyers were seen queued up in Justice Dattu’s court room today to mention matters. This is a marked departure from Justice Lodha’s tenure when the mentioning procedure was made stricter and senior counsels were disallowed from mentioning matters..Read the circular here.