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The Gujarat High Court will soon implement hearing of counsels in hybrid mode, enabling them to join virtually, on a pilot basis.
The Registrar General of the High Court Tuesday issued the standard operating procedure (SoP) for implementation of hybrid hearing, which can initially be opted for by counsels on Thursdays at the division benches, presided by Acting Chief Justice AJ Desai, and Justice Vipul Pancholi.
The court had heard the counsels in virtual mode before during the Covid-19 pandemic. The live streaming rules of the high court will apply as is for the hybrid hearings.
As per the SoP, advocates who have been allotted their Advocate Codes by the high court and have registered their mobile numbers with the court’s Registry, need to intimate the Registry through ‘Online Module for Submission of Hybrid Hearing Option’ tab on the Gujarat High Court website, if they wish to appear through video conferencing mode.
The advocates will have to provide the names of the counsels who will be arguing the cases. Thereafter, a meeting link will be sent via email and over their mobile phones. Counsels should join the meeting With exact names as was provided at the time of registration.
Counsels can opt for hybrid hearing only after publication of Thursday’s causelist, latest by 10 am.
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