Order 29 FCT (Civil Procedure) Rules 2025

Order 29 of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 is about Cause/ Counsel List. It contains the following rules:

A – Cause List

  1. The Registrar shall keep a daily cause list of all actions fixed
    for hearing which shall form part of the record of the Court.
  2. The Registrar shall post a daily Cause List containing the
    suit number, names of parties and shall set out the
    arrangement of causes before a judge sitting in Court.
  3. On any day when the Court does not sit, a minute
    recording the parties present and the step taken by the
    Registrar, shall be endorsed on the case file.
  4. Daily Cause List and other such lists shall be posted on one
    or more notice boards set up in such place or places within
    the Court premises as the Chief Judge may designate.

B – Counsel List

  1. The Registrar shall keep a daily counsel list of all counsel
    appearing in causes fixed for the day which shall form part
    of the record of the Court.
  2. The Counsel List shall contain names and contact phone
    numbers of counsel appearing in the causes fixed for the
    day.
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