( 1 ) AN unfortunate situation has arisen pursuant to an Order passed in this regular first appeal when the court had occasion to deal with la. I for condonation of delay. Those facts will be recounted slightly later because they are relevant. This court passed an Order dated 28-7-1995 directing the registrar to discontinue the practice of returning papers to the advocates after the same had been checked and various office objections noted, as a result of which the removal of objections would have to be attended to within the court premises without the lawyer being permitted to physically take back the records and retain them for an indefinite period of time. The raison detre for this decision was because experience has shown that the number of cases in which papers are properly presented along with all necessary annexures and the court fees, shockingly enough are less than 4%, and that therefore, in almost all cases barring this microscopic number, there is abnormal and heavy delay as a result of his default. What had been happening was that once the papers were returned to the learned advocates that for a variety of reasons, they did not come back sometimes for