The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that senior lawyers should not debate cases during summer vacation. Explain that a bench of Justice BV Nagratna and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma said that junior lawyers should be given opportunity during the holidays.
The bench told senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Neeraj Kishan Kaul, “Senior lawyers should not debate matters during these partial working days”.
These lawyers appeared in a petition filed against an order from the National Company Law Tribunal. A lawyer in the case demanded the postponement of the case due to the absence of senior advocate Shyam Dewan.
The Supreme Court has named its traditional summer holidays as “Partial Court Work Day”. This development was a part of the amendment in the Supreme Court Rules, 2013, which has now become the Supreme Court (Second Amendment) Rules, 2024 notified on 5 November.
The notification stated, “The duration of partial working days of the court and the number of holidays for the court and court offices will be determined by the Chief Justice and will be notified in the official Gazette, which will not be more than 95 days except Sunday.”
According to the current system, the Supreme Court used to take summer and winter holidays every year. However, during these periods, the Supreme Court was not completely closed. During the summer days, “holiday back” was established by the Chief Justice to hear important and essential cases.
It is noteworthy that in the newly revised rules, the word “Judge” is now used in place of the word “holiday judge”. According to the recently published 2025 Supreme Court Calendar, Partial Court working days will begin on May 26, 2025 and end on July 14, 2025.
