The reopening of the Supreme Court after the ongoing summer vacation will see the adoption of a new process for the listing and mentioning of fresh cases before the Chief Justice of India.
From July 3, all fresh miscellaneous matters that are verified by Tuesday will now automatically be listed on the coming Monday, while those verfied post Tuesday will be listed on the Friday of the next week.
Counsel seeking listing of verfied fresh matters prior to such allotted dates will now be needed to submit their mentioning proformas by 3 PM, to get their cases heard the next day.
For those seeking listing on the same day, the proformas have to be submitted by 10:30 AM to the mentioning officer along with a letter of urgency.
The CJI will then take a call on the same during lunch hours or 'as the exigency may warrant'.
For after-notice and regular hearing matters that are sought to be urgently listed, counsel have to first go before the mentioning officer with the proforma and urgency letter.
The top court's Registrar (Judicial Administration) shall the notify the lists so generated for mentioning before appropriate benches, after seeking instructions from the CJI.
No mentionings other than those in the mentioning lists uploaded a day prior shall be permitted for such matters.
Earlier, the regime was to have the mentioning proformas submitted by 10:25am for all fresh matters or those not designated a new bench. The Chief Justice of India would then hear all the mentionings 10.30am onwards and allot dates, a practice that in recent times saw upto 300 odd items being mentioned on some days. After-notice and partially heard regular matters would be mentioned before the concerned benches.
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