Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
(1) The Magistrates should give priority to criminal work over other work and that, every effort should be made to reduce, as far as possible, the hardship to parties and witnesses which the proceedings entail. (2) The Magistrate should settle his Board personally and should not leave it to be done by his Bench Clerk. The Magistrate should fix on his board only such number of matters as he feels confident of being able to take up during the