More than any other High Court in the country, the Bombay list is really four lists. Reading the wrong one is the most common way to miss a hearing here.
The Bombay High Court cause list is the order of business for a hearing day, published by the court on the evening before it. The court has its principal seat at Mumbai and benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji in Goa, and each sitting publishes its own list — so the first thing to get right is which list you are reading.
The Bombay High Court has its principal seat at Mumbai, with benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji. Its jurisdiction covers Maharashtra, Goa, and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Each sitting runs its own cause list. A Vidarbha matter is on the Nagpur list, a Marathwada matter on the Aurangabad list, a Goa matter at Panaji — and none of them appear on the Mumbai list you may have bookmarked.
This is the single most common failure mode in a Bombay practice, and it is not a subtle one: the list you are reading is accurate, complete, and about somebody else's matter. Searching by CNR removes the problem entirely, because the CNR is unique to the matter and does not care which sitting is hearing it.
The list for a hearing day is published on the evening before it. There is no fixed clock time, and the practical consequence is that checking at a habitual hour sometimes means checking too early.
An advance list gives earlier notice of what is expected to be listed. A supplementary list carries what was added after the daily list went out — sometimes later that night, sometimes on the hearing morning itself. A matter that was not on the list at 9 pm can be on it at 10 am.
That last point is the argument for alerts over checking. Save the matter once and the list finds you, with the sitting, the court, the bench and the item, the moment it is published.
You can search a published list by party name, advocate name or case number. Party and advocate names are approximate — they are typed by hand and spellings vary, and in a court that hears matters in English, Marathi and Konkani-speaking Goa, transliteration varies more than people expect.
A case number or a CNR is exact. If you have one, use it. See advocate-wise cause lists for the other direction — everything listed against your own name, across sittings, in one view.
The list for a hearing day is ordinarily published on the evening before it. Supplementary items can follow later that night or on the hearing morning itself, so a matter absent from the evening list may still be listed the next day.
Yes. The principal seat at Mumbai and the benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji each publish their own list. A matter is on exactly one of them, which is why searching by CNR rather than by browsing a list avoids the most common mistake here.
The daily list is the main order of business published the evening before. The supplementary list carries items added after it went out. Both govern the day, and only reading both gives you the full picture.
By case number or CNR if you have one, which is exact. Party and advocate name search works but is approximate, because names are typed by hand and spellings vary. Saving the matter means you stop searching altogether and are alerted when it is listed.
Maharashtra, Goa, and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Goa matters are heard at the Panaji bench.
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