The Rules of the High Court of Orissa, 1948 lays down the procedures for functioning of the different branches of the Court. The High Court has two major wings: Judicial and Administrative. The administrative wing otherwise known as the Registry of the High Court has different departments further divided into various sections manned by High Court officials. The organizational structure is depicted on the facing page. It is headed by the Registrar General of the High Court. The Registrar General oversees the functioning of every wing.

In 2023, several posts in different cadres were created by the State Government on the recommendation of the High Court. Details of the posts created in the year are at Appendix-H.

There are different categories of officers and staff in the Registry;

1. Judicial Officers from the Odisha Superior Judicial Service and Odisha Judicial Service;

2. Ministerial officers and staff (Additional Registrar, Joint Registrars, Additional Deputy Registrars, Assistant Registrars, Superintendents, Section Officers, Assistant Section Officers, Court Managers, System Analyst, Programmer, Peripatetic Stamp Reporters, Judicial Indexer, Translators, Librarian, Assistant Librarian and Technical Assistants, staff of Typist, Copyist and Diarist cadres, staff of Driver cadres, Treasury Sarkar, Jamadars, Attenders, Duftaries, Cook-cum-Caretaker, Mali-cum-Chowkidar and Group-D staff);

3. Secretarial officers and staff (Additional Registrar-cum-Principal Secretary, Joint Registrarcum- Principal Secretary, Additional Deputy Registrars-cum Additional Principal Secretaries, Assistant Registrars-cum- Senior Secretaries, Secretaries, Personal Assistants, Senior Stenographers and Junior Stenographers);

4. Government Officers and staff on deputation (Senior Technical Director and Scientist(F) of National Informatics Centre, the Chief Accounts Officer, the Medical Officers (Allopathy) and staff of the High Court Dispensary, the Medical Officer (Homeopathy) and staff of the High Court Homeopathy Dispensary and Physiotherapist;

5. Technical personnel for e-Courts project (Senior System Officer, System Officers and System Assistants);

6. Persons holding tenure posts in the High Court (Law Reporter, Research Assistants and Assistant Editor)

The Judicial Officers and the Ministerial Officers supervise the functioning of the offices in the Registry. The Secretarial officers and staff are attached to the Chief Justice and the Judges. The officers working on deputation discharge specific functions–the Senior Technical Director and Scientist(F), National Informatics Centre (NIC) look after implementation of the e-Courts projects through NIC, the Chief Accounts Officer deputed by the Finance Department of the Government looks after the budget of District Judiciary and acts as a Financial Advisor, the Medical Officer (Allopathy) and the Medical Officer(Homeopathy), both deputed by the Health Department of the Government manage the High Court Dispensary and Homeopathy Dispensary respectively.

The sanctioned strength, present sanctioned strength, working strength and vacancy of the posts presently coming under all Group cadres are indicated in Appendix-I.