The cause list told you where you are in the order. The board tells you when that order actually arrives — and in a court this size the two are not the same thing.
The Delhi High Court display board is the live running order inside the court building at Sher Shah Road. It shows, court by court, the item number that court has currently reached. It runs through sitting hours, roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, and it is the document that tells you whether to walk over now or wait. Lawgger carries it on a phone so you do not have to be standing under the screen to read it.
A board carries a great deal of text and almost all of it is stable through the day. Two fields are not: the court number, and the item number that court has reached.
Everything useful comes from reading those two against your own position in the list. Item 61 before a court sitting on item 12 is a long morning. Item 61 before a court on item 54 is a corridor you should already be walking down. The board is not information about the case; it is information about time.
Delhi runs a large number of courts simultaneously across the main building, which is why the court number is doing more work here than it does at a single-bench High Court. Advocates with matters before two benches on the same morning are reading two rows and deciding which one is about to become urgent.
Three pieces of notation carry real consequences, and they are not interchangeable.
Pass over means the matter has been deferred within the same day — usually because counsel was not present when it was called. It will come back, generally lower down the same board.
Part heard means a bench has begun hearing the matter and will continue it. That carries a listing consequence: part-heard matters ordinarily return before the same bench.
Not reached means the day simply ran out before your item. The matter goes back for a fresh date. Nothing has been decided, but the date you were working towards has moved.
The display board guide sets out each of these and what an advocate ordinarily does next.
A Delhi practice rarely stops at the High Court. Tis Hazari, Karkardooma, Patiala House, Rohini, Dwarka, Saket and Rouse Avenue each run their own lists and their own boards, and a working day frequently spans two of them.
Lawgger covers cause lists for around 700 district courts alongside the High Courts, so a matter at Saket in the morning and one at Sher Shah Road in the afternoon sit in the same place, with the same alerts. See Delhi High Court cause lists and how case status is followed between hearings.
It runs through sitting hours, which are ordinarily 10:30 to 16:30 IST, with a lunch recess in between. Outside those hours there is no live item number to show, because no court is sitting. The cause list for the next day is the document to read in the evening.
It is the position the court has currently reached in its list for the day. Read against your own item number, it tells you roughly how long you have. It is not a clock time, and courts move through items at very different speeds depending on what is listed.
Yes, in the Lawgger app. The board is mirrored live through court hours so you do not have to be standing in the corridor to read it. This marketing website does not carry live court data.
The cause list is published the evening before and tells you the order of business. The display board is live during the day and tells you where in that order the court actually is. The list is a plan; the board is what is happening.
The matter has been deferred within the same day rather than adjourned to another date. It will ordinarily be called again lower down the same board, so stay reachable. If it is not called before the court rises, it is treated as not reached and gets a fresh date.
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