Supreme Court says a holiday deadline must be filed the day courts reopen

If the time to appeal runs out while courts are closed, the appeal has to be filed on the day they reopen, or that extra day is lost.

Appeals whose deadline falls during court holidays have to be lodged on the day courts reopen, the Supreme Court said.

A litigant who misses that day without a satisfactory reason loses the relief under Section 4 of the Limitation Act, 1908.

The ruling came in two civil appeals over land ownership, and the Lahore High Court's judgment was set aside.

In the case, the appellants filed on September 12 and 13, 1995, after courts reopened on September 11.

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