“as aggregate of those tribunals” to take care that no act of the court in the course of the whole of the proceedings does an injury to the suitors in the court. The above passage was quoted in the majority judgment of this Court in A.R. Antulay v. R.S. Nayak [(1988) 2 SCC 602, 672: 1988 SCC (Cri) 372] . Mukharji, J., as he then was, after referring to the said observation of Lord Cairns, said: (SCC p. 672, para 83) “No man should suffer because of the mistake of the court. No man should suffer a wrong by technical procedure of irregularities. Rules or procedures are the handmaids of justice and not the mistress of the justice. Ex debito justitiae, we must do justice to him. If a man has been wronged so long as it lies within the human machinery of administration of justice that wrong must be remedied.” 17. It is well to remember that the Code of Civil Procedure is a body of procedural law designed to facilitate justice and it should not be treated as an enactment providing for