No Provision In Limitation Act To Compute Limitation For Counsel’s Carelessness, Observes Sikkim HC [Read Order]

‘Misplacing of files’, ‘omission of clerk attached to office of the counsel’ etc., are routine ‘reasons’ in most of the delay condonation applications. Most of the courts do not bother to check genuineness or validity of these reasons averred through an affidavit by the litigants, especially when delay sought to be condoned is only a few days or months.The Sikkim High Court,...