Report No. 14
State of civil work.- The number of a year old suits as well as the average duration of contested suits is fairly low.
16. The judicial business transacted by the Courts of district judges, subordinate judges and small cause judges and the number of original suits pending in their courts on.-1-1956 according to the years of institution of the pending suits are shown in the accompanying Tables (Table Nos. 7 and 8). The average duration in days of original suits disposed of by district judges and subordinate judges in 1953, 1954 and 1955 after full trial is shown below.-
Year |
District Judges |
Subordinate Judges |
1 |
2 |
3 |
1953 |
301 |
285 |
1954 |
195 |
228 |
1955 |
252 |
224 |
Table No. 6
Original Suits |
Miscellaneous Suits |
Regular Appeals |
Miscellaneous Appeals |
Year |
Instituted |
Disposed of |
Instituted |
Disposed of |
|
Disposed of |
Instituted |
Disposed of |
|
|
Total |
After contest of the total disposed shown in column 3 |
|
Total |
After contest of the total disposed shown in column 6 |
|
Total |
After contest of the total disposed shown in column |
|
Total |
After contest of the total disposed shown in column |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
1951 |
20978 |
20622 |
7402 |
15218 |
15683 |
8329 |
4519 |
4401 |
3865 |
1482 |
1480 |
1264 |
1952 |
19873 |
20747 |
7508 |
16867 |
15791 |
7256 |
4430 |
3738 |
3325 |
1440 |
1489 |
1317 |
1953 |
19585 |
21698 |
8179 |
16201 |
17510 |
8391 |
4852 |
5032 |
4532 |
1542 |
1629 |
1378 |
1954 |
22010 |
22383 |
7845 |
17936 |
18439 |
9362 |
5358 |
5353 |
4753 |
1863 |
71 |
1478 |
1955 |
21810 |
21216 |
7396 |
16686 |
15993 |
8072 |
4863 |
4592 |
4006 |
1857 |
1383 |
1613 |
Table No. 7
Civil Suits |
Civil Miscellaneous |
Year |
Pending at the beginning of the year |
Institution |
Disposal |
After full trial |
Pending |
Pending at the beginning of the year |
Institution |
Disposal |
After full trial |
Pending |
|
|
|
|
|
At the close of the year |
For more than a year |
|
|
|
|
At the close of the year |
For more than a year |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
1953 |
36 |
37 |
44 |
36 |
29 |
11 |
271 |
804 |
954 |
848 |
121 |
8 |
1954 |
31 |
62 |
52 |
35 |
41 |
7 |
122 |
833 |
865 |
751 |
90 |
4 |
1955 |
44 |
95 |
83 |
51 |
56 |
7 |
90 |
832 |
710 |
588 |
212 |
4 |
Courts of Subordinates Judges |
1953 |
11,322 |
17,772 |
19,692 |
7797 |
9,402 |
1210 |
6,174 |
15,297 |
16,452 |
7,523 |
5,019 |
461 |
1954 |
9,400 |
20,005 |
20,392 |
7,369 |
9,013 |
481 |
5,019 |
17,011 |
17,483 |
8,568 |
4544 |
181 |
1955 |
9,010 |
19987 |
10,471 |
6,938 |
9,516 |
466 |
4,544 |
15,741 |
15,180 |
7,425 |
5,105 |
263 |
Small Cause Courts |
1953 |
355 |
1,670 |
1,629 |
272 |
396 |
2 |
5 |
95 |
93 |
12 |
10 |
.. |
1954 |
396 |
1,797 |
1,799 |
342 |
394 |
.. |
10 |
79 |
80 |
34 |
9 |
.. |
1955 |
393 |
1,593 |
1,135 |
311 |
458 |
1 |
9 |
1,405 |
82 |
48 |
22 |
.. |
Civil Appeals |
Civil Miscellaneous Appeals |
Pending at the beginning of the year |
Institution |
Disposal |
Pending |
Pending at the beginning of the year |
Institution |
Disposal |
Pending |
District Courts |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
1455 |
1,651 |
2,082 |
1024 |
159 |
401 |
764 |
934 |
231 |
23 |
1051 |
1,703 |
1,841 |
913 |
47 |
231 |
1,018 |
945 |
304 |
3 |
946 |
1,568 |
1,659 |
855 |
87 |
304 |
930 |
897 |
337 |
16 |
Courts of subordinate Judges |
993 |
1899 |
1987 |
905 |
7 |
100 |
340 |
336 |
104 |
.. |
878 |
1993 |
2008 |
863 |
7 |
104 |
373 |
383 |
94 |
1 |
830 |
1,773 |
1,822 |
781 |
18 |
94 |
370 |
366 |
98 |
1 |