While the debate for reducing the vacations in courts and increasing the working hours coupled with filing up all the vacancies for faster dispute resolution and speedier adjudication, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has once again spearheaded and been a leader whereby the MP HC has increased its working hours by half an hour for everyday.
Earlier, the timings for the regular functioning of the MP High Court were from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM. The lunch timings were from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM. Now the timings have been changed from 10:15 PM to 4:30 PM and also the timings for the lunch have been reduced from one hour to 45 minutes that is from 1:30 PM to 2:15 PM.
Doing this every day extra half an hour would be dedicated by the Hon’ble Madhya Pradesh High Court Which would enable the High Court to dispose of larger number of cases and would give it greater time for hearing the cases. An appropriate amendment has been made in the Madhya Pradesh High Court Rules, 2008 and has also been published in the Madhya Pradesh Gazette on 31.12.2021 and as such the revised timings of the Court would be in effect from 03.01.2022.
It may be pertinent to mention herein that recently the Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar Association had passed a resolution to increasing the working timings by 30 minutes.
We should keep in mind that it was the MP High Court which had spearheaded in the e-filing process under the leadership of the then Chief Justice of MP HC Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.M. Khanwilkar.
Click here to read the gazette notification for the amendment of the High Court Rules.
