PART B JURISDICTION OF A SINGLE JUDGE AND OF BENCHES OF THE COURT.
1. Save as provided by law or by these rules or by a special order of the Chief Justice, all cases shall be heard and disposed of by a Judge sitting alone.
Explanation. - A case includes a motion application, petition, reference, suit, appeal, revision or other proceedings to be heard and disposed of by the High Court under any law in the exercise of its ordinary, extra-ordinary, original or appellate jurisdiction.
2. (1) Save as provided by these rules, the following cases shall be heard and disposed of by a Division Bench:-
(i) (a) A regular first appeal from the decree of a subordinate court, jurisdictional value of which exceeds that of the District Court prescribed by the Civil Courts Ordinance, 1962 (No.II of 1962), and any cross- objection to decree.
(b) An appeal under the Land Acquisition Act if the jurisdictional value involved in the appeal exceeds the one indicated in sub-clause (a) above.
(ii) (a) An appeal or reference in a case in which a sentence of death has been passed.
(b) A case in which a notice has been issued to person sentenced to imprisonment or imprisonment for life requiring him to show cause as to why the sentence should not be altered to death.
(c) An appeal by -
(i) the Provincial Government under section 417(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, or
(ii) the complainant under section 417(2) of the Code after grant of leave by a Single Judge, or
(iii) an aggrieved person under section 417(2-A) of the Code,
from an order of acquittal of a charge punishable with death or imprisonment for life.
(2) A Single Judge while sitting in the long vacation or winter holidays, or when he is the only Judge available at a Bench, may exercise the original and appellate jurisdiction vested in the Court-
(i) in any criminal matter other than one mentioned in clause (ii) of sub-rule (1);
(ii) in any urgent matter connected with, relating to or arising out of, the execution of a decree; and
(iii) in any miscellaneous matter which in his opinion requires immediate attention.
3. In cases not provided for by Order XLVII rule 5 of the Civil Procedure Code, an application for a review of a decree or order shall be heard:
(a) if the decree or order , review of which is applied for, was passed by a Judge sitting alone, by a Bench of two or more Judges, or
(b) if the said decree or order was passed by a Bench of two or more Judges, by a Bench consisting of at least as many Judges as the Bench review of whose decree or order is applied for .
4. A Full Bench shall ordinarily be constituted of three Judges, but may be constituted of more than three Judges in pursuance of an order in writing by the Chief Justice.
4-A. (i). A Judge may, if he thinks fit, refer any matter with the permission of the Chief Justice to a Division Bench of two Judges.
(ii) A Division Bench, if it thinks fit, may refer any matter with the permission of the Chief Justice to a Full Bench.**
5. The Chief Justice shall nominate the Judges constituting a Division or Full Bench.*
6. The Judge or Judges of a Bench by whom any question or case is referred shall ordinarily be members of the Division or Full Bench, as the case may be, appointed to consider such question or case.*
7. If a majority of a Full Bench of three Judges so determine, by order in writing at any time before final decision, the Full Bench for the decision of any question or case referred to a Full Bench of three Judges shall be constituted by four or more Judges according to such direction.
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