Islamabad High Court
The High Court for the Islamabad Capital Territory, with a single seat and no benches.
The forum
The Islamabad High Court has jurisdiction over the Capital Territory. Unlike the provincial High Courts it has one seat and no separate benches, so every matter is listed in Islamabad. Its jurisdiction covers the federal government and the authorities based in the capital, so a firm anywhere in the country with a matter against a federal department is likely to end up here.
What a firm has to track
A single seat makes the listing simple and the travel hard: a firm in Rawalpindi crosses the city, and a firm anywhere else in the country does not. What a diary has to make obvious is which of tomorrow's hearings are in Islamabad, so one person can be sent for all of them rather than three people for one each. A firm outside Rawalpindi or Islamabad has to treat every date here as a journey, planned days ahead. Recording the date as soon as the court gives it, and naming the person travelling, is the whole job.
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.
Start with today's list.
Set your firm up in a couple of minutes, enter the cases you are running this week, and let your associates report from court.