{"id":34153,"date":"2014-07-11T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34153"},"modified":"2014-07-11T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T05:49:00","slug":"workload-highest-judiciary-excessive-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/workload-highest-judiciary-excessive-sc","title":{"rendered":"Workload on the highest judiciary is excessive: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/cbi-probe-recommended-against-yeddyurappa-kin\/supreme-court-211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19702\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19702\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cbi-probe-recommended-against-yeddyurappa-kin\/supreme-court-211\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19702 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?resize=166%2C177&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"supreme court\" width=\"166\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on Thursday said that workload on it is \u201cexcessive\u201d and inflow of cases before it is \u201cuncontrolled\u201d and asked the Bar to suggest measures for speedy disposal of cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoad of work, which is flowing in the highest judiciary, is uncontrolled and excessive. We are not finding ways and means to deal with the situation,\u201d a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha said.<\/p>\n<p>The CJI also expressed displeasure over the way in which lawyers bodies recently reacted to his proposal for courts working round the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout comprehending and discussing the issue, reactions are coming against the proposal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He asked senior lawyers to hold consultations among themselves and come out with suggestions to deal with the increasing workload.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou (senior lawyers) are senior people. You should sit together and suggest to us. I really want a solution. Help us in finding solution,\u201d the bench said.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Lodha said he had recently interacted with 12 Chief Justices of other countries and none of their Supreme Courts handles such a large number of cases.<\/p>\n<p>In some Supreme Courts, only 150 appeals are heard in a year and the CJs were astonished when I told them that on Monday and Friday, we deal with at least 800-900 cases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The court was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by death convicts seeking commutation of their sentence to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The bench also said matters pertaining to death sentence will be heard by not less than a three-judge bench.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday said that workload on it is \u201cexcessive\u201d and inflow of cases before it is \u201cuncontrolled\u201d and asked the Bar to suggest measures for speedy disposal of cases. \u201cLoad of work, which is flowing in the highest judiciary, is uncontrolled and excessive. We are not finding ways and means to deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14533,47765,159,47726,47774,47775,23371,29079],"class_list":["post-34153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-five-judge-constitution-bench","tag-news","tag-speedy-disposal-of-cases","tag-supreme-court","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news","tag-workload-of-judges"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Workload on the highest judiciary is excessive: SC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Workload on the highest judiciary is excessive: SC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/workload-highest-judiciary-excessive-sc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Workload on the highest judiciary is excessive: SC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Workload on the highest judiciary is excessive: SC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/workload-highest-judiciary-excessive-sc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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