Chief Court Gilgit-Baltistan
The principal court of Gilgit-Baltistan, sitting at Gilgit and Skardu.
The forum
The Chief Court of Gilgit-Baltistan exercises the jurisdiction a High Court does elsewhere, sitting at Gilgit and at Skardu. It sits at Gilgit and at Skardu, hearing the territory's principal civil and criminal work, with appeals going up to the Supreme Appellate Court.
Where it sits
The principal seat is Gilgit. It also sits at Skardu. A date given at one is not a date at another, which is why the bench belongs in the record with the date.
What a firm has to track
Two sitting places separated by a long road. The bench belongs in the record for the same reason it does in Peshawar: somebody has to get there. Two sitting places, a long mountain road between them, and weather that can close it. A date at Skardu has to be known far enough ahead to travel, and the person going has to be named rather than assumed.
The date the court gives is a fact. Whoever is standing there records it in CaseMate before they leave the building, and the office acknowledges it — it does not wait to be approved.
The firm decides who goes to the next hearing, against the hearing itself. A matter at a distant bench is a travel arrangement, not a line in a list.
Every previous date, its outcome and the note taken at the time — so a partner can be answered without opening the file.
A hearing in the past with nothing recorded against it is the one thing a diary must never hide. CaseMate lists them separately.
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Set your firm up in a couple of minutes, enter the cases you are running this week, and let your associates report from court.