An overview of the new scheme for automated listing of cases in Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India had introduced the Integrated Case Management Information System on May 10 with the object of bringing in greater objectivity, consistency and transparency in the judicial process..The Court has now published an overview of the new scheme for automated listing of cases. Some of the salient features of the new scheme are:.No Miscellaneous matter shall remain undated. Every Miscellaneous matter shall bear some date, either given by the Court or auto-generated by the computer.An attempt has been made to ensure even distribution of cases on a given day before each courtFresh admission cases registered from Saturday to Tuesday will be listed on the following Court working Monday or the notified miscellanous day and fresh cases registered from Wednesday to Friday will be listed on next the following Court working Friday or the notified Miscellaneous day, from the date of removal of office objections, if any.In case the defects are not cured within the statutory period of 28 days and if an application for condonation of delay for removing defects is filed 2 after the 28th day till the 60th day, the matter shall be placed before the Registrar’s court.In case the party fails to cure the defects till 90 days the matter shall be listed in the following week before the Hon’ble Judge in Chambers.Subject to the directions of Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India, ordinarily, on miscellaneous days fresh matters not exceeding 45 and 15 after notice/FD matters will be listed before the concerned bench.Ordinarily, on non-miscellaneous days subject to any directions of the Hon’ble Chief Justice to the contrary upto 10 after notice (including Final Disposal) matters and 10 Regular Hearing matters shall be listed before the concerned bench.Court dated pre-admission cases shall be listed on dates assigned by the Court (including actual date notice) and shall not be left out. Pre-admission matter ordered to be listed by the Hon’ble Court in week commencing / next week / after week(s) shall be treated as Court given date matter.Not reached/left over FRESH ADMISSION MATTERS shall be listed on the following miscellaneous day. The not reached / left over after notice cases will be assigned auto-generated returnable dates spread out in suitable lots after four weeks. This is to ensure that the daily list / supplementary list for the following week does not get oversized. The returnable dates of concerned cases will be notified on the Supreme Court official website in the case status of that case as also on the list/board for the next Court working day, for the information of the litigants and lawyers. In either case, if the Court orders to the contrary in exceptionally urgent matters, the Court given date on mentioning will prevail.Any urgent / left over matter/fresh for admission matter required to be listed on the next Court working day after preparation of final list will be included in the supplementary list.The matters of in-Person shall be listed after giving a clear notice of four weeks and in case a party wants to get his/her matter listed before the period of four weeks he/she may prefer a request in writing to the Registrar after the completion of interaction as per rules.Regular hearing matters shall be allocated as per Subject Category, if not otherwise directed by Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India. If the Coram is specified by Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India at the miscellaneous stage the same will continue to be listed even after the grant of leave/ Rule Nisi/Admission Stage, as per the Coram so granted.Regular hearing matters shall be listed as per the oldest to the newest (oldest matter first), depending upon the date of institution of the case, except a specially directed matter..Read a complete overview of the new scheme of listing below..Follow Bar and Bench channel on WhatsAppDownload the Bar and Bench Mobile app for instant access to the latest legal news.