New Sitting list High Court of Madras – Madurai Bench Rsmj Victoria gowri judge
High Court of Madras – Madurai Bench
Sitting Arrangements – From August 05, 2024
Sl.No. Hon’ble Judges Subject
- R.Subramanian, J
And
L.Victoria Gowri, J Writ Petitions – Public Interest Litigations;
Criminal Contempt and Appeals relating to Orders in
Contempt Proceedings;
All Division Bench Writ Petitions;
All Writ Appeals from the year 2022.
1A. R.Subramanian, J
(when DB not sitting) Old Second Appeals from the provisional list
1B. L.Victoria Gowri, J
(when DB not sitting) Old Writ Petitions relating to Service from the provisional list - P.Velmurugan, J and
K.K.Ramakrishnan, J All other Division Bench Civil Appellate Side matters including Commercial Appellate Division cases;
Arbitration Appeal;
All Writ Appeals other than service matters – upto the year 2021.
2A. P.Velmurugan, J
(when DB not sitting) Old Second Appeals from the provisional list
2B. K.K.Ramakrishnan, J (when DB not sitting) Old Civil Revision Petitions from the provisional list - C.V.Karthikeyan, J and
J.Sathya Narayana Prasad, J Habeas Corpus Petitions;
All Criminal Appeals and other Criminal Cases to be heard by Division Bench (including crime against women and children);
All Writ Appeals relating to service matters – upto the year 2021.
3A. C.V.Karthikeyan, J
(when DB not sitting) Old Criminal Appeals from the provisional list
3B. J.Sathya Naraya Prasad, J (when DB not sitting) Old Writ Petitions relating to Service from the provisional list
- N.Sathish Kumar, J Writ Petitions relating to General Miscellaneous,
Mines and Minerals, Registration – from the year 2018;
Writ Petitions which are not specifically assigned to any other Single Bench – from the year 2018.
5 V.Bhavani Subbaroyan, J Second Appeals – upto the year 2006
- G.R.Swaminathan, J Civil Revision Petitions PD (other than Civil Revision Petitions challenging the Awards passed by the Labour Courts and the Co-operative Tribunals) – for all the years;
Second Appeals – from the year 2014 to 2018. - Abdul Quddhose, J Writ Petitions relating to General Miscellaneous,
Mines and Minerals, Registration – upto the year 2017;
Writ Petitions which are not specifically assigned to any other Single Bench – upto the year 2017. - P.T.Asha, J Writ Petitions relating to Land Reforms, Land Tenancy, Urban Land Ceiling, Land Acquisition and other Land Laws, Patta, RTI, Freedom Fighters’ Pension Scheme, Agriculture Produce Market
(APM);
Second Appeals – of the years 2012 and 2013. - B.Pugalendhi, J Writ Petitions relating to Labour, Civil Revision
Petitions and Writ Petitions against the Awards/Orders passed by the Labour Courts and the Co-operative Tribunals – for all the years; Second Appeals – from the year 2022. - G.Ilangovan, J CBI and Prevention of Corruption Act Cases (except Bail and Anticipatory Bail Applications);
Criminal Appeals (including appeals relating to Crime against Women and Children) – for all the years - K.Murali Shankar, J Criminal Revisions – for all the years;
Criminal Original Petitions (under Sections 407 and 482 Cr.P.C.), Writ Petitions (Cr.P.C.) – from the year 2024. - S.Srimathy, J Civil Revision Petitions NPD (other than Civil Revision Petitions challenging the Awards passed by the Labour Courts and the Co-operative Tribunals) – for all the years;
Second Appeals – from the year 2007 – 2011. - D.Bharatha Chakravarthy, J Criminal Original Petitions – Anticipatory Bail and Bail;
Petitions for Cancellation, Relaxation or Modification of Bail and Anticipatory Bail;
All other petitions concerning Bail and Anticipatory Bail;
Criminal Original Petitions (under Sections 407 and 482 Cr.P.C.), Writ Petitions (Cr.P.C.) – upto the year 2023. - R.Vijayakumar, J Writ Petitions relating to Service – from the year 2022.
- Mohamed Shaffiq, J Writ Petitions relating to Tax (including Motor Vehicles Tax, Duties, Export and Import), Customs and Central Excise, Prohibition and State Excise, Forest, Industries, Motor Vehicles and H.R. & C.E and Wakf ;
Writ Petitions relating to Service – upto the year 2021. - Sunder Mohan, J Civil Miscellaneous Appeals and Civil
Miscellaneous Second Appeals ; Arbitration Appeal. - P.Vadamalai, J Transfer Civil Misc. Petitions and Company Appeals;
First Appeals;
Second Appeals from 2019 to 2021.
Note:
• Cases should be listed chronologically as per the date of filing, unless otherwise directed having regard to exceptional urgency.
• Cases relating to Senior Citizens, Crime against Women, Persons with Disability and Children shall be taken up on priority basis.
• Review Applications should be posted before the Judge/Judges whose order is sought to be reviewed.
Applications/Petitions for Review/Clarification/Modification of the orders or Speaking to the Minutes to the Orders passed by the Division Bench/Single Bench of which the Judge(s) is/are not available on account of elevation, transfer or retirement such matters shall be placed before the Division Bench or Single Bench having the provision to dispose of the main proceedings as per roster.
Applications/Petitions for Review/Clarification/Modification of the orders or Speaking to the Minutes to the Orders passed by the Division Bench of which the Senior Judge/Junior Judge is not available on account of elevation, transfer or retirement such matters shall be placed before the Division Bench consisting of the Junior Judge/Senior Judge of the former Division Bench.
Applications/Petitions for Review/Clarification/Modification of the orders or Speaking to the Minutes to the Orders passed by the Division Bench of which the Senior Judge is not available on account of elevation, transfer or retirement and the Junior Judge is sitting Single such matters be placed before the Division Bench consisting of Hon’ble Mr.Justice R.Subramanian and the Junior Judge of the former Division Bench.
• Civil Contempt Petitions/Applications shall be listed before the Court where the original proceedings would lie as per the roster of the proceedings.
If the Judge or Judges concerned is/are not available in view of their sitting at Madurai/Madras or retirement or for any other reasons, such applications shall be posted before the learned Single Judge or before the Division Bench, as the case may be, according to the subject being dealt with.
If the Senior Judge/Junior Judge is not available on account of elevation, transfer or retirement such matters shall be placed before the Division Bench consisting of the Junior Judge/ Senior Judge of the former Division Bench.
If the Senior Judge is not available on account of elevation, transfer or retirement and the Junior
Judge is sitting Single such matters be placed before the Division Bench consisting of Hon’ble Mr.Justice P.Velmurugan and the Junior Judge of the former Division Bench.
• All Bails and Anticipatory Bails which are part heard or Reserved for orders shall be placed before the Roster Bench, upon change of Roster.
• Upon change of Roster, Part heard matters shall stand released and be placed before the Bench as per Roster. However, if the parties or any of them make a request for retention of the matter before the Hon’ble Bench which had heard it, stating that the matter had been heard for a considerable length of time and de novo hearing would not be expedient, and if the Hon’ble Bench endorses the request, such matter may be placed before the Hon’ble The Chief Justice for being assigned to the Hon’ble Bench which partly heard the matter.
• Whenever any Court is of the opinion that there are case(s) pending before other Court(s) similar to the case(s) in hand and it is necessary to tag matter(s) pertaining to other Court(s), with the case(s) which is listed before it, (or) any party mentions before the Court that there are matters before other Court(s) which is/are similar to the case(s) on the list of that Court and
request for tagging, the Court shall direct the matters to be placed before the Hon’ble The Chief Justice for tagging the matters and for placing the same before appropriate Court.
• Whenever a case is directed to be listed under the caption “For Reporting Compliance”, “For Compliance”, “For Further Hearing”, “For Filing Report”, “For Recording Appearance”, “For Recording Settlement”, and etc., on a specific date, upon change of Roster, the case shall stand released from the Court which passed such order, and shall be listed before the Hon’ble Court as per Roster.
// BY ORDER OF THE HON’BLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE //
Dated: 01.08.2024 Registrar (Judicial),
High Court, Madras