The Madras High Court is all set to get two new court halls when it reopens after a month long summer vacation on Monday. Three judges’ chambers in the 129-year-old heritage building have been vacated and converted into two court halls, one for accommodating a Division Bench and another for a single judge.
A Bench of Justices R. Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq would be presiding over the proceedings in the new court hall numbered as 7 and the latter would be holding proceedings as a single judge, whenever the Division Bench does not sit, in the second smaller court hall that had been numbered as 7A.
At present, the High Court has 48 halls with nearly half of them functioning from the heritage building and the rest from the annexe building that was constructed primarily for administrative purposes. Since the sanctioned strength of the judges of the High Court rose to 75, the need for court halls too increased.
