The Hon’ble Bombay High Court vide Notification No. 1604/2021 and Notification No. G/Amend/671/2021 both dated July 6, 2021 has issued amendments in the Bombay High Court Appellate Side Rules, 1960 (“Appellate Side Rules”) and the Bombay High Court Original Side Rules, 1980 (“Original Side Rules”) respectively, w.r.t. usage of superior quality A4 size paper with printing on both sides of the paper instead of foolscap size paper for all judicial and administrative work, in a following manner:
- In Chapter IV, Rule 26 of the Appellate Side Rules (i.e., how memoranda of appeals, copies etc. should be typed) has been amended to substitute the words “Superior quality A4 size paper having not less than 75 GSM with printing on both sides of the paper with Font – Times New Roman or Georgia, Font size 14 with inner margin of 5 cms and outer margin 3 cms.” in place of words ” foolscap size in metric measures leaving a margin of 2 inches or 5 centimeters.” and words ”Superior quality A4size paper having not less than 75 GSM with printing on both sides of the paper” in place of “foolscap size paper”.
- In Chapter IV, Rule 42(1) of the Original Side Rules (i.e., plaint) has been amended to substitute the words “Superior quality A4 size paper having not less than 75 GSM with printing on both sides of the paper with Font – Times New Roman or Georgia, Font size 14 with inner margin of 5 cms and outer margin 3 cms.” in place of words “foolscap paper with an inner margin of about three and a half centimeters wide.”.
- In Chapter XVII, Rule 10(ii) of the Appellate Side Rules (i.e., Manner of printing, typing, etc. of paper-books, their indexing and paging) has been amended to substitute words “use superior quality A4 size paper having not less than 75 GSM with printing on both sides of the paper with Font – Times New Roman or Georgia, Font size 14 with inner margin of 5 cms and outer margin 3 cms.” in place of words “a five centimeter margin on strong and durable paper of foolscap size or of size corresponding the foolscap size in the metric measure.”
The Notifications can be accessed at: https://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/writereaddata/notifications/PDF/noticebom20210714125354.pdf