The Madras High Court has solicited the views of all Bar associations on a Parliamentary Standing Committee’s recommendation that High Court judges in the country could go on vacation at different times in a year, rather than declaring a month-long summer vacation for the courts during the month of May apart from the much shorter vacations during Dussehra and Christmas.
Registrar General M. Jothiraman has issued a circular requesting office-bearers of Bar associations in the principal seat of the High Court in Chennai and the Madurai Bench to express their views on Wednesday (February 7, 2024) before a committee of judges constituted for considering the recommendation related to the High Courts functioning round the year without vacations.
Along with his circular, the R-G had also annexed a copy of the recommendation, related to court vacations, made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice in its 133rd report titled ‘Judicial Processes and their Reform.’ The report was laid on the table of the Lok Sabha and also presented before the Rajya Sabha on August 7, 2023.
