The Supreme Court of India has issued a circular to facilitate the hearing of matters of extreme urgency during the summer vacation.
According to the circular, the following arrangements have been made under the directions of the Competent Authority:
(i) Requests for mentioning of Fresh Matters before Vacation Benches shall be only by email addressed to mention.sc@sci.nic.in in the format attached as “Annexure-I.
(ii) If the Mentioning Officer declines to allow the request for listing in (i) above, the Advocate-on-Record/Party-in-Person may request the Mentioning Registrar to place the mentioning slip before the Judge presiding over the Vacation Bench for appropriate orders. Such a request shall be submitted to the Mentioning Officer at mention.sc@sci.nic.in. The request shall be processed in terms of directions of the Hon’ble Judge.
(iii) Mentioning of After Notice matters shall continue strictly as per the guidelines approved by the Competent Authority earlier and Mentioning applications may be sent in the format attached as “Annexure-II”, only through e-mail addressed to mention.sc@sci.nic.in.
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