https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185273 An appeal under clause 10 of the Letters Patent was not rendered incomplete or non-existent merely because it was filed without three spare copies of the paper-book. The Supreme Court treated Rule 3 of Chapter 2-C of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Rules and Orders as directory, holding that the essential requirement was that the necessary documents be before the Court. Filing one complete set with the memorandum, followed by the remaining sets within a reasonable time, amounted to substantial compliance. The defect was only a procedural irregularity, so the appeal was not barred by limitation and maintainability objection failed. en-us Wed, 03 Aug 1977 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:14:52 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185273 An appeal under clause 10 of the Letters Patent was not rendered incomplete or non-existent merely because it was filed without three spare copies of the paper-book. The Supreme Court treated Rule 3 of Chapter 2-C of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Rules and Orders as directory, holding that the essential requirement was that the necessary documents be before the Court. Filing one complete set with the memorandum, followed by the remaining sets within a reasonable time, amounted to substantial compliance. The defect was only a procedural irregularity, so the appeal was not barred by limitation and maintainability objection failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 03 Aug 1977 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185273