Learned this lesson from late senior advocate, Justice B.K.Mehta.
The causes lists in Supreme Courts have many stages. There is Advance List, Weekly List, Daily List, Elimination list etc.
Each stage serves some purpose.
The most complicated is the supplementary list, which is published at eleventh hour.
Suppose you have some cases tomorrow in Supreme Court.
To know when your which case will reach in which court, you have to make assessment on basis of serial numbers in daily list.
You may plan that in some court you may not reach in first round and you will have to reach there in second round only. You accordingly decide your order of arguing cases.
But all plans goes haywire the moment you see the Supplementary list. There will be some addition of new matters in some court. This will change timing of second round matters.
In those days, if one judge had to go on sudden leave, courtroom numbers of all subsequent courts used get changed and reduced by one.
We used to see lawyers running from one court to another courts at 10:30 due to this sudden change which they may not have seen in supplementary list.
Judgements to be pronounced are notified only supplementary list.
So we do not check supplementary list we can miss important.
Haresh Raichura
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