Speaking 2 (Two) Minutes Application

You leave Court Room 12 after the judge dictates an order on an interim application. The judge said the respondent must deposit Rs 50,000 within two weeks. The typed order you receive two days later says nothing about a deadline, and the respondent's advocate is already smiling. You cannot appeal an order for being incomplete, and a review would be heavy for a missing sentence. Lawyers in this position go back to the same judge. What is that application called, what must it say, and how far can it go?

In two minutes

An application to speak to the minutes asks the judge who passed an order to bring the written order into line with what was actually decided or said in court; it is a practice-based, short application resting on the court's power to correct slips and omissions (CPC ss.151 and 152), not a review or an appeal, and it cannot change the decision.

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