{"id":34217,"date":"2014-07-15T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T06:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34217"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T06:18:17","slug":"increased-workig-hours-can-work-successfully-cji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/increased-workig-hours-can-work-successfully-cji","title":{"rendered":"Increased workig hours can work successfully: CJI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/increased-workig-hours-can-work-successfully-cji\/chief-justice-of-india-rm-lodha-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34218\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/increased-workig-hours-can-work-successfully-cji\/chief-justice-of-india-rm-lodha-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Chief-Justice-of-India-RM-Lodha.jpg?fit=256%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"256,197\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Chief Justice of India RM Lodha\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Chief-Justice-of-India-RM-Lodha.jpg?fit=150%2C115&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Chief-Justice-of-India-RM-Lodha.jpg?fit=256%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-34218 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chief-Justice-of-India-RM-Lodha.jpg?resize=256%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Chief Justice of India RM Lodha\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Chief-Justice-of-India-RM-Lodha.jpg?w=256&amp;ssl=1 256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Chief-Justice-of-India-RM-Lodha.jpg?resize=150%2C115&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Dispelling doubts of lawyers&#8217; bodies on his proposal to increase court&#8217;s working hours to reduce pendency of cases, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha on Monday said that the proposal was successfully first tried in Patna High Court when he was heading it.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Lodha said that after getting Bar Associations of Patna High Court into confidence, he had increased working hours of the HC by half an hour and for subordinate courts by 45 minutes to one hour which led to large number of disposal of cases.<\/p>\n<p>The CJI, who had served High Court from May 13 to December 17, 2008, expressed &#8220;dismay&#8221; on that practice being scrapped after he left the High court on being elevated to the apex court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 365-days working proposal, which the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) had rejected was first conceptualised at Patna High Court, during my stint as chief justice,&#8221; Justice Lodha said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a function to bid farewell of Justice Chandermouli Prasad, who retired today, he praised Prasad&#8217;s contribution in making that proposal of increased working hours successful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During my stint as chief justice of Patna High Court, I had found that there were more than 30,000 bail applications pending before the court. I had then asked my fellow judge Justice Chandermouli Prasad to talk to the Bar Associations for increasing the working hours of court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was surprised, when the very next day Justice Prasad came up to me with three letters saying that Bar Associations have agreed to increasing the working hours of court,&#8221; said Justice Lodha.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispelling doubts of lawyers&#8217; bodies on his proposal to increase court&#8217;s working hours to reduce pendency of cases, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha on Monday said that the proposal was successfully first tried in Patna High Court when he was heading it. Justice Lodha said that after getting Bar Associations of Patna High Court 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