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HC urged not to implement modified working hours

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE FEB. 26 . The Mangalore Bar Association has urged the Karnataka High Court not to enforce the modified working hours proposed to be implemented from Friday. A press release by the Secretary of the association, Prithviraj Rai, here noted that as per the modified timings, courts would function between 10.30 a.m. and 5.30p.m. instead of between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m..

Mr. Rai said the proposed change would put the public and advocates to great inconvenience. Advocates required time for getting instructions from their clients, he said, and added that drafting of cases subsequently was a time-consuming affair. They needed time for preparation of representations to be made before the court.

Stating that advocates conducted these activities in their chamber before and after the working hours of the court, he noted that they would not get sufficient time to prepare for their case and do their homework, if the proposed changes were implemented.

The changed timings would hinder the public from meeting their advocates and instructing them in matters regarding the case.

He pointed that the new timings would inconvenience people living in rural areas, and added that most of them had to travel far to reach the courts.

Noting that the lower judiciary worked for six days as against five days for the High Court, Mr. Rai urged those concerned to extend this schedule to lower courts as well. He said this five-day week provided valuable time to advocates to prepare themselves for cases taken up by the High Court, and would provide time to judicial officers to prepare judgments.

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