Peshawar High Court
The High Court for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, sitting at Peshawar with benches at six other stations.
The forum
The Peshawar High Court has jurisdiction across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its principal seat is Peshawar, and it sits at Abbottabad, Mingora, Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Kohat and Mardan — more benches than any other High Court in the country.
Where it sits
The principal seat is Peshawar. It also sits at Abbottabad, Mingora, Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Kohat and Mardan. 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
Seven sitting places is the hardest listing problem in Pakistani practice. The distances are real: Mingora and Dera Ismail Khan are not day trips from each other. A diary that does not record the bench is not a diary, and a firm working across the province needs to see tomorrow grouped by where it is before it can decide who goes.
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.