SCAORA Opposed Newly Adopted Procedure For Mentioning Urgent Matters, Neither Transparent, Nor Efficient

The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association, SCAORA has urged the Chief Justice of India in order to change the newly adopted mechanism for mentioning of the urgent matters in the Supreme Court.
Therefore, the Supreme Court notified the major change in the previous system of mentioning and among the other things, the court disallowed the practise of unlisted mentioning. Thus, under the new regime, the lawyers can make an appeal during the mentioning hour in the chief justice’s court for an out-of-turn hearing of only those verified fresh matters that were submitted for such urgent mentioning on the previous day which was before 3 PM.
In order to secure an urgent hearing for a matter with ‘exceptional urgency’, the lawyer needs to submit by 10:30 AM, a mentioning proforma along with a letter of urgency indicating why it cannot be mentioned on the next day. The said documents would be placedbefore the chief justice during lunch recess or as the ‘exigency warranted’.
Further, it has been urged by the Chief Justice DY Chandrachud in order to allow the mentioning of urgent matters immediately after they are registered following the removal of defects.