Gujarat HC Issues Instructions For Physical Filing At Subordinate Courts [Read Circular]

A Circular delineating the modalities for physical filing has been issued by the High Court stipulating that:

• The Principal Judicial Officer of all Courts shall identify and earmark a dedicated separate room with facility of window and shall create a special counter within such dedicated room in the Court Complex where litigants/advocates shall submit physical cases in a sealed envelope.
• The timing for such filing shall be 11.00 AM to 2.00 PM.
• The envelope of physical cases, so received, must be kept in abeyance for 24 hours in cupboard/cabinet. Once the 24 hour time-window lapses, the envelopes containing physical files are to be sent to the Filing Centre for the purpose of verification, registration and entry in CIS.
• The advocates/ litigants must write details like name, mobile number, email address of the advocate, category of cases and an index of documents placed in the sealed envelope.

It is clarified that these guidelines have been issued only for the purpose of physical filing, registration of fresh cases and conducting urgent matters. Therefore, this must not be construed as starting of physical functioning of the Court-work.

So far as hearing of matters is concerned, it is intimated that only such matters that can be conducted through video conferencing shall be proceeded with.

Further, for matters where the advocate/ litigant concerned intends to press for urgent hearing, he/she may file a note of urgency alongwith the main case, which may be considered subject to the discretion of the Judicial Officer concerned, looking to the facts and circumstances of the case.

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