Chief justice cancels annual vacation of SC

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has cancelled the next scheduled annual vacations of the Supreme Court.  The SC administration issued a notification to this effect on Tuesday night.        

Both  the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court were  scheduled to remain on annual vacations  from September 1 to October 5  and from December 20 to December 31.

The  chief justice cancelled the vacations as per the decision taken in a  full court meeting of the judges on August 6.                

Most  of the judges, who joined the virtual full court meeting through video  conferenceing, have proposed to curtail the next vacation of the court to recover the gaps caused due to the ongoing Covid-19, according to sources  present at the meeting.

Syed Mahmud Hossain at the meeting  decided to run both regular and virtual proceedings of the High Court from August 12 for the  interest of lawyers and litigant.

The  lawyers, who prefer the physical court, will move cases  before the physical HC benches, while others will move cases before virtual HC benches.