Madras High Court restarts Physical hearing on trial basis
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Madras High Court restarts Physical hearing on trial basis
| Monday | 7th September, 2020
“In order to meet the growing demand of physical court hearing and also keeping view the precautions that are required to be observed for avoiding any untoward happening, Hon’ble Administrative Committee on serious consideration has decided to open physical court hearing partially,” a notification from the Madras High Court Registrar General said last week.
The Madras High Court has once again started physical hearing of cases. The physical hearing will go simultaneously with Online hearing.
“In order to meet the growing demand of physical court hearing and also keeping view the precautions that are required to be observed for avoiding any untoward happening, Hon’ble Administrative Committee on serious consideration has decided to open physical court hearing partially,” a notification from the Madras High Court Registrar General said last week.
The Committee has decided to open physical hearing partially with six division benches at the Principal seat in Chennai and two at Madurai, “with a combination of physical court hearing and virtual court hearing with effect from September 7, 2020,” it said.
“The virtual court hearings will be alternatively conducted for the rest of the day. Thus, the Benches would be functioning for half a day through physical court hearing and for the next half a day through virtual court hearing so as to facilitate lawyers who opt for both types,” the notification added.
This will be adopted on a trial basis to assess the feasibility of running physical courts.
