The Supreme Court on Thursday issued six new directives to ensure timely dispatch of court orders.
The directives were issued following complaints from lawyers and others about delays in sending orders and verdicts which were causing barriers to justice.
The Supreme Court directives were announced in a notification issued on Thursday. It was published on the Supreme Court鈥檚 website.
According to the notification, section officers must send bail orders, acquittal orders, release orders, verdicts, and anticipatory bail orders to the dispatch section by the next day or the next working day after receiving them from the court.
For writ petitions, if the court does not specify a time for notifying the respondents, the section officers must send the orders or verdicts to the dispatch section within three days.
In civil petition cases, section chiefs must send orders or verdicts, along with lower court records if needed, to the dispatch section within seven working days of completing all related tasks, including typing. This will be applied when no specific timeframe is given by the court.
If the court issues special instructions to notify respondents urgently, the section officers must process and send the order or verdict on a priority basis.
The Supreme Court also directed all section superintendents to strictly follow the 12 directives issued earlier by chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on September 23, 2024, which aim to improve and speed up judicial services.
It warned that departmental action would be taken against the superintendents who would disobey these directives.
Assistant and deputy registrars of each section have been assigned to monitor daily whether the directives are being properly implemented, the court said.
