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Industrial dispute Transfer of case from one Labour Court to another-Mere delay in disposal No round for transfer. Date of hearing: 22nd August 1973.                                                                                                                          DECISION These are eleven applications for transfer of appeals pending before the Presiding Officer of Sind Labour Court No. Ill, Karachi. The grounds for transfer are two-fold, namely: (1) That though the law requires that the appeals should be disposed of within twenty days, the appeals which were filed on 21st March 1973, had remained pending till now. It is submitted that this has caused prejudice to the applicant; and - (2) That as the appeals were not disposed of within twenty days, the applicants in law were entitled to be re-instated. The opposite-party did not re-instate the applicants. The applicants were obliged to file a complaint before the learned Labour Court on 20th June 1973. No cognizance of the complaint had been taken so far. 2. I had called for the remarks of the learned Labour Court. The learned Labour Court has given an explanation for this inordinate delay. I am not satisfied with the explanation that the learned Labour Court has given for this long delay. The question, however, is as to whether mere long delay can be said to be a sufficient ground for transfer. There are number of cases, which are…