The Supreme Court of India has recently released a circular dated April 28, 2014 listing out guidelines for the oral mentioning of cases..As per the guidelines, a Deputy Registrar (Mentioning) “will process the request for mentioning in accordance with existing guidelines”. If the Registrar deems it a fit case for mentioning, than the matter can be mentioned at 2 in the afternoon..Advocates who want to orally mention the matter need to submit the paper book to the Deputy Registrar between 10:30 and 11 in the morning, and those matters may then be orally mentioned at 2 in the afternoon. For Miscellaneous days, matters may be orally mentioned just after “normal work is over”..If sending a request through the Deputy Registrar would vitiate the very purpose of urgent mentioning, the circular does provide some leeway stating,.“If the matter is not accepted by the Registry on the grounds of no urgency, oral mentioning can be made before the Court presided over by Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India”.The circular also states that if the Chief Justice’s court is not taking mentioning matter on a particular day, mentioning “may be allowed” in Court No. 2 or any other court presided over by the senior most judge..This is second indication of CJI Lodha’s intent to introduce changes in the current scheme of things. On Monday, a statutory warning was given in the supplementary list stating that,
The Supreme Court of India has recently released a circular dated April 28, 2014 listing out guidelines for the oral mentioning of cases..As per the guidelines, a Deputy Registrar (Mentioning) “will process the request for mentioning in accordance with existing guidelines”. If the Registrar deems it a fit case for mentioning, than the matter can be mentioned at 2 in the afternoon..Advocates who want to orally mention the matter need to submit the paper book to the Deputy Registrar between 10:30 and 11 in the morning, and those matters may then be orally mentioned at 2 in the afternoon. For Miscellaneous days, matters may be orally mentioned just after “normal work is over”..If sending a request through the Deputy Registrar would vitiate the very purpose of urgent mentioning, the circular does provide some leeway stating,.“If the matter is not accepted by the Registry on the grounds of no urgency, oral mentioning can be made before the Court presided over by Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India”.The circular also states that if the Chief Justice’s court is not taking mentioning matter on a particular day, mentioning “may be allowed” in Court No. 2 or any other court presided over by the senior most judge..This is second indication of CJI Lodha’s intent to introduce changes in the current scheme of things. On Monday, a statutory warning was given in the supplementary list stating that,
