‘Procedure’ is meant only to facilitate the administration of justice and not to defeat the same: Supreme Court [Read the Judgment]

In a Judgment on a Civil Appeal [BanwariLal (d) VsBalbirSingh] which it pronounced today, the Supreme Court reiterated that ‘Procedure is meant only to facilitate the administration of justice and not to defeat the same.’ On sufficient cause, delay in bringing the legal representatives of the deceased party on record should be condoned. A Bench of Justices T.S.Takur and R. Bhanumathi,...