STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. CR LAW REPORTERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) FOR the purpose of laying down a uniform policy for publishing the judgments, notices were issued to the State of Rajasthan and various Law Journals.

(2.) RULE 119 of the Rajasthan High Court RULEs 1952 (for short `1952 RULEs') which prescribes the procedure for publication of the judgments in law journals, reads as under:- i) an approved list of journals has to be maintained under the orders of Chief Justice; ii) Only such approved law journals are entitled to receive the copies of the judgment approved for reporting; iii) No law journal shall be entered in the list unless it has given an undertaking that it will apply for a copy of every judgment delivered by the Court which is marked "approved for reporting'; iv) As soon as a judgment is approved for reporting by the Court a Bench Reader has to enter in a separate register and the Bench Reader is required to send such judgment immediately to the Superintendent of the Judicial Department; v) An approved judgment is sent by the Superintendent of the Judicial Department to the Superintendent of the Coping Department for preparation of as many copies as per the list of journals. vi) Two registers are to be maintained by the Superintendent of the Copying department called as `register of the Copies of the Judgments marked AFR' and `register of applications of copies of judgments marked AFR'; vii) Additional information such as names of advocates and the Judge relating to the said order be sent to the Superintendent of the Copying department by the Superintendent of the Judicial department along with judgments; viii) If the representative of any law journal on the approved list does not apply for any copy of any judgment marked AFR within four weeks from the date of delivery of the said judgment, the name of such journal has to be removed from the approved list.