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The CJI expressed concerns over increasing adjournment requests and emphasized that the practice defeats the purpose of expediting cases.

The division bench also criticized the claims of the Union government that pendency of cases was causing impediments in its business while over looking the fact that the Central government was the largest litigant.

The practice of giving long dates was criticised by the Supreme Court last year, when the High Court while issuing 'rule' in the bail application filed by activist Teesta Setalvad, had adjourned her plea for six weeks.

The Punjab and Haryana Court has now ordered the director of the Chandigarh Judicial Academy to sensitise judicial officers to 'save the precious Court time' rather than grant routine adjournments.

India News: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar announced the suspension of TMC leader Derek O’Brien only to let him come back as the House reconvened post adj

The Delhi High Court has said that the family court should not give an adjournment for long period while referring the parties to a matrimonial dispute to a Court Counsellor for exploring the...

We did not know he was in talks to sit down with him so thank you for clearing that up. i want to also ask what happened in florida today, you saw people that used to work with trumps current legal team, they told judge cannon they didnt believe that she should schedule a new trial date for the documents case, but todd blanche said if she were, they proposed mid-november or later next year, obviously that would be after the election. do you really think they cant go to trial before november? >> ...

The documents case. todd blanche said if she were, they propose mid november or later next year. obviously that would be after the election. do you really think they cant go to trial before november? >> i think that practically speaking, federal criminal cases do take that long. however, it is a little bit odd to be asking for that type of a trial dates at this early stage of the game. ordinarily, trial dates are set and everybody knows its not going to happen on that date and you have five or s...

>> it certainly is. it will depend a lot on the trial judge and whether he or she, if it is ilene cannon, as has been discussed, her name is apparently on the summons, it will depend on whether she is willing to -- to do it before or after. so thats actually one of my concerns if judge cannon is, in fact, the trial judge here, will she, you know, listen to doj, and its wish to have this trial before the election? or will she kind of slow-walk the motions, give president trump the adjournments he...

Justice Narasimha raised concerns about cases being listed during court vacations, only to witness parties seeking adjournments.