Legal Vacation Without ‘Vacation’; The Plight of ‘Oral’ Lawyers and the Infringed Rights of the Accused?

Recent conversations have centered around the power of the Honourable Chief Justice to appoint certain courts to sit during the legal vacation. Lawyers are familiar with a practice where during the main legal vacations, only few courts are selected as vacation courts. Usually, when the legal year is about to end, the Courts in adjourning cases would ask lawyers whether one would want to appear before the vacation court. It is up to the lawyer to indicate by his or her election whether he or she would want to appear before a vacation court.