Chairman authority to allocate matters to Benches shapes Bench composition and transfer of cases across benches. The Chairman is empowered to specify categories of matters to be heard by multi-member Benches and to designate a Principal Bench, based in New Delhi but able to sit elsewhere as necessary. Specified corporate and statutory matters must be heard by Benches of not less than two members, while interlocutory and miscellaneous applications connected to those matters may be decided by a single-member Bench. The Chairman may transfer matters from Regional Benches to the Principal Bench for reasons recorded in writing.
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Chairman authority to allocate matters to Benches shapes Bench composition and transfer of cases across benches.
The Chairman is empowered to specify categories of matters to be heard by multi-member Benches and to designate a Principal Bench, based in New Delhi but able to sit elsewhere as necessary. Specified corporate and statutory matters must be heard by Benches of not less than two members, while interlocutory and miscellaneous applications connected to those matters may be decided by a single-member Bench. The Chairman may transfer matters from Regional Benches to the Principal Bench for reasons recorded in writing.
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