From December 15, only 40 cases would be fixed before the division benches of Sindh High Court (SHC) because of the shortage of judges, the SHC decided on Tuesday.
The decision was taken after a meeting of Sindh High Court Bar Association office bearers with high court judge Justice Sajjad Ali Shah held in the premises of SHC Karachi building.
On the position of 40 judges, only 15 judges are working in the SHC and the lawyers’ representatives have raised their voices many times.
At the meeting, it was discussed that dozens of cases are fixed before division benches and single benches at the SHC and the counsels and litigants immensely suffer on the respective dates of their hearings from the morning up to the end of the court timings.
It was observed that the majority of the cases fixed before the benches cannot even be presented for hearing due to shortage of time.
It was decided at the meeting that there will be exception to the cases fixed by the courts in urgency due to their nature of importance or the cases in which urgent applications are moved by the lawyers.
