Punjab and Haryana high court creates the post of “Court manager” on a three-year trial basis, to be held by engineers with an MBA degree. Court managers will manage the court’s budget and stock, human resource, case flow, electronic data, infrastructure, security and records.

Currently, meritorious persons in the court’s clerical staff are awarded some of those duties.

The court has also created additional law researcher posts to be held for two years either by fresh law graduates or by final year students of law. The law researchers will be forbidden to appear in the court in which they assisted, for a year immediately after their appointment as researcher ends. [Day and Night News]