PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 1 -- Observing that only 16 Full Court meetings had been convened by the Chief Justice over the past 10 years, Justice Vinod Diwakar of the Allahabad high court has questioned whether the Full Court was functioning as a meaningful collegiate forum in which the individual views of judges were deliberated upon and recognised.

On the quality of deliberations in Full Court meetings of the high court, the judge observed the proceedings do not record the concurrence or dissent of individual judges.

In an 80-page judgment dated September 28 in Pappu Met alias Pappu vs State of UP and another, Justice Diwakar also called for a recalibration of the "Chief Justice-centric" model of high court administration, emphasising the need f...