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Smt.
Preetam
Kaur,
Wd/o
late
RESPONDENT
DEFENDANT
Chief
Municipal
Officer,
under:
2.1
The
appellants/plaintiffs
suit
for
declaration
and
the rival submission made therein and perused the record of the
Claims Tribunal.
6.
4
shall appoint a day for proceeding with the suit.
(2) No order shall be made under this rule unless notice of
the application has been served on the opposite party.
7.
A bare perusal of the Order 9 Rule 9 CPC would show the suit
9.
(2000) 3 SCC 54
(2009) 2 SCC 692
5
8.
In our opinion, whether the applicant has made out
sufficient cause or not, in the application filed, the Court is
required to look at all the facts pleaded in the application.
No doubt, the consideration of the existence of sufficient
cause is the discretionary power with the court, but such
discretion has to be exercised on sound principles and not
on mere technicalities. The approach of the Court in such
matters should be to advance the cause of justice and not
the cause of technicalities. A case, as far as possible,
should be decided on merits.
10.
the Supreme Court held that the obligation of the party is to select
his advocate, brief him, pay the fees and trust the learned Advocate
to do the rest of the things. It is thus a duty of lawyer to attend the
proceedings. The Supreme Court held as under:3.
The disturbing feature of the case is that under our
present adversary legal system where the parties generally
appear through their advocates, the obligation of the
parties is to select his advocate, brief him, pay the fees
demanded by him and then trust the learned Advocate to
do the rest of the things. The party may be a villager or
may belong to a rural area and may have no knowledge of
the courts procedure. After engaging a lawyer, the party
may remain supremely confident that the lawyer will look
after his interest. At the time of the hearing of the appeal,
the personal appearance of the party is not only not
required but hardly useful. Therefore, the party having
done everything in his power to effectively participate in
the proceedings can rest assured that he has neither to go
to the High Court to inquire as to what is happening in the
High Court with regard to his appeal nor is he to act as a
watchdog of the advocate that the latter appears in the
matter when it is listed. It is no part of his job.
could not come to the Court on the date of hearing and suit came to
be
dismissed
for
default
on
28/02/2003
and
thereafter,
HEADLINE
Under Order 9 Rule 9 read with Section 151 CPC sufficient
cause has to be liberally construed.