{"id":96246,"date":"2020-04-16T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T10:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=96246"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T10:05:33","slug":"sc-issues-sop-mentioning-efiling-video-conferencing-cases-amid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/sc-issues-sop-mentioning-efiling-video-conferencing-cases-amid-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"SC issues SOP for mentioning, efiling & video conferencing of cases amid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a circular providing a standard operating procedure for Advocates and party in persons for\u00a0 mentioning, e-fling and video conferencing, in order to contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), considering the lockdown declared by the Government.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court has formulated a medium of conducting court hearings amid the outbreak of COVID-19 through video conferencing. The Court in a suo moto petition has directed all the High Courts and Subordinate courts to conduct their proceedings via video conferencing to minimise physical contact and to promote social distancing.<\/p>\n
The standard operating procedure provides for the following:-<\/p>\n
MENTIONING & E-FILING<\/strong><\/p>\n In all matters involving extreme urgency, the Advocate-on- Record\/Party-in-person is first required to file the petition\/miscellaneous application, preferably through the e-filing mode available on the Supreme Court website, as per procedure elaborated at the link https:\/\/main.sci.gov.in\/php\/FAQ\/5_6246991526434439183.pdf. Upon completion of all the formalities, as per Rules governing such petition\/ miscellaneous application, and upon its due registration the Advocate on-Record\/Party-in-person is permitted to send separately the signed and verified mentioning-application containing a synopsis of extreme urgency not exceeding one page.<\/p>\n \n INSTRUCTIONS FOR JOINING VIDEO CONFERENCING<\/strong><\/p>\n PARTIES may kindly note that, for the present, the matters shall be heard by the Hon\u2019ble Bench through web-based video-conferencing system on the VIDYO platform hosted on the servers of National Data Centre of National Informatics Centre, Govt. of India. It may be further noted that smooth functioning of the video-conference is squarely dependent upon and subject to the connectivity [signal-strength\/bandwidth] available at the end of the remote user(s), and hence it is expected that any party joining a video-conference hearing shall ensure robust connectivity and bandwidth are available at their end \u2013 in this regard, parties may use broadband connection of minimum 2 mbps\/dedicated 4G data connection, and may also ensure that no other device or application is connected to or using the bandwidth when the hearing by video-conferencing is progressing on their Vidyo-enabled computer (preferable) or mobile.<\/p>\n For ease-of-use, parties may kindly inform themselves of the following Standard Operating Procedure in respect of hearing of cases through video-conferencing mode:-<\/p>\n \n The present circular is issued in supersession of previous circulars dated 23rd March 2020 and 26th March 2020 reiterating and further elaborating Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for e-filing, mentioning and hearing of urgent matters through video conferencing. The Supreme Court has however clarified that during lockdown it is going to hear cases of only most extreme nature or urgency.<\/p>\n –India Legal Bureau<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a circular providing a standard operating procedure for Advocates and party in persons for\u00a0 mentioning, e-fling and video conferencing, in order to contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), considering the lockdown declared by the Government. The Supreme Court has formulated a medium of conducting court hearings amid the outbreak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,64],"tags":[950,88332,88581,128,88504,88420],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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