What does supplementary cause list mean?

It is a further list published for a Court day after the daily list was settled, adding matters that were not in the daily list.

When is the supplementary cause list published?

After the daily list for the same day. There is no fixed public timetable, and no notice is sent when it appears — which is why it is the list most often missed.

Is a supplementary listing less important than a daily listing?

No. It is a listing for the same Court day. The difference is when it was published, not what it means.

What a supplementary cause list is, and why it appears after you have checked

Short answer

A supplementary cause list is a further list published for a Court day after the daily list has already been settled. It adds matters that were not in the daily list. Because it is published later, a day that looked settled in the morning can carry a matter of yours by the afternoon — which is why checking once is not the same as knowing.

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What it adds

The daily cause list is settled first and published as the Court day’s main list. A supplementary list is published afterwards and adds matters to the same day. It is a separate document with its own item numbering, not a corrected reprint of the daily list.

That separateness is the point, and it is also why the two cannot simply be added together. On the Court’s live display board the two streams are shown with different prefixes — an item in the supplementary stream reads S/8 and an item in the daily stream reads D/52 — so they are counted separately at the moment they are being taken.

Why it is the list that gets missed

Nobody misses the daily list. It is the one everybody opens. The supplementary list is missed because it arrives after the check has already been done — the advocate looked, found nothing, and moved on, and the document that would have changed the answer was published after they closed the page.

Nothing tells you it has been published. There is no notice, no email and no marker on the day you already looked at. The only way to know from the public website is to go back and look again, which means going back and looking again at every list, for every day, in case one of them changed.

The order of taking can change too

Cause-list publications can carry instructions about the order in which matters are taken: that the supplementary list is to be taken before the daily one, that a particular case is to be taken first, that a matter has moved to a different heading, that a judge is not holding Court, or that another Court is taking fresh or urgent matters. These instructions are part of the document, and they decide when a listed matter is actually reached.

What Johar Justice does with this

A supplementary listing is one of the things Johar Justice alerts you about. If your matter turns up in a supplementary list, you are told — you do not have to go back and check a day you have already checked.

Common questions

What does supplementary cause list mean?: It is a further list published for a Court day after the daily list was settled, adding matters that were not in the daily list.
When is the supplementary cause list published?: After the daily list for the same day. There is no fixed public timetable, and no notice is sent when it appears — which is why it is the list most often missed.
Is a supplementary listing less important than a daily listing?: No. It is a listing for the same Court day. The difference is when it was published, not what it means.