Gujarat High Court Extends Hybrid System Of Court Proceedings To All Benches And Courtrooms

The Gujarat High Court has extended the hybrid system of court proceedings to all the courtrooms and benches, meaning that the proceedings can be attended both physically and virtually.

The virtual proceedings was initially for four division benches of the High Court in June, and when the pilot projects became successful, it is now being extended to all the courtrooms. This will start from tomorrow, that is from 29 September in accordance with the notification that the Registrar General had issued.

The notification reads as follows: "The present pilot implementation exercise of hybrid mode of hearing of cases for the four division benches of the High Court has been successful and smoothly going on for a couple of months. Considering the same and further in compliance of the directions of the Supreme Court of India, the ongoing pilot implementation exercise of hybrid hearing of cases is now implemented on regular basis for all the remaining division benches, Single-Judge benches (and also Larger benches constituted from time to time) of the High Court of Gujarat for all days starting with the Cause-list for September 29, 2023 onwards." 

Those who intends to appear by using the hybrid mode needs to submit the request through an online link on the website of the High Court.

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