Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
In order to avoid delay in the preparation of the consolidated statements in the High Court for the purposes of the compilation of the Annual Report on the Administration of Civil Justice and to ensure that correct statements are submitted by District Judges and other Officers, a set of instructions for the checking of such statements is given below. Before submitting their statements the District Judges and other Officers will have them checked in the light of these instructions and assure themselves that they are correctly drawn up. General. I. The Statements should be submitted early enough to reach the Registrar's Office by the 1st of February of each year. II. The instructions printed on each form of Statement should be carefully studied and noted. III. The information in respect of various tribunals and classes of cases should be shown in only one set of forms. IV. (i) The Annual Reports on the Administration of Civil Justice which are submitted with the Annual Judicial Statements should be as brief as possible. It is unnecessary for the District Judges to send a detailed report every year, reviewing and reproducing the statistics of each statement in detail. It is sufficient if a very brief report containing only the explanation of really important or suggestive variations in the statistics is submitted, as the reports are only used for the Administration Report of the High Court. (ii) The reports should also briefly note the variations in the constitutions or the jurisdictions of the Courts, Civil or Criminal, during the year and mention the Courts which were inspected as well as those which were assisted by the deputation of Civil Judges within the district as Joint Civil Judges, or by the appointment of extra Civil Judges. They should also contain remarks about the condition of Record-Rooms and libraries and should state whether any Judicial Conference was held during the year. (iii) The reports need not accompany the Annual Judicial Statements but may be sent afterwards as no use can be made of them till the general statements are ready. IV. The total of columns 21A and 22 should agree with the figure in column 6 against each sub-head. V. The average duration of miscellaneous cases (Judicial) in columns 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19 and 21 should be shown in days which are to be calculated according to the instructions given on the reverse of the printed form of Statement No. 6.