A court whose name no longer matches its state's, sitting in a city that is not the capital. Both facts change how an Odisha practice actually runs.
The Orissa High Court sits at Cuttack and serves Odisha. Its official name remains "Orissa" even though the state is now Odisha, which is why advocates and searchers use both spellings. Lawgger carries its cause lists for any date, the live display board through court hours, and CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest.
Both, and it is worth explaining rather than quietly writing each spelling twenty times.
The state was renamed Odisha in 2011. The High Court's own name was not changed with it, and remains the Orissa High Court. So the correct name of the court and the correct name of the state it serves no longer match — which is true of no other High Court page on this site.
The practical consequence is small but genuinely irritating. Papers, indexes, digests, file notes and search boxes carry one spelling or the other depending on who typed them and when. Search for one and you can miss material filed under the other. A junior looking for a line of authority under "Odisha" may not find the reports that used "Orissa", and the reverse happens just as often.
Lawgger treats the two as the same court, in search, in citations and in the watchlist. You do not have to remember which spelling a document used, and you do not have to run the same search twice. That is the whole of the fix, and it is worth stating plainly rather than pretending the problem does not exist.
Like a small handful of Indian High Courts, this one does not sit in the seat of government. The High Court is at Cuttack. The state capital, with the secretariat, most state departments, and a great deal of institutional and corporate work, is at Bhubaneswar, twenty-odd kilometres away.
That splits professional life in Odisha across two cities in a way that is entirely ordinary to anyone who works here and slightly surprising to anyone who does not. Instructions are taken in one city and argued in the other. A conference in the morning and an item after lunch are in different places. Government counsel and advocates acting for state instrumentalities move between the two constantly.
Which is the honest reason a Bhubaneswar-based practice needs the Cuttack list on a phone rather than on a noticeboard. Not because paper is old-fashioned — because the noticeboard is in the other city.
By case number or CNR. Lawgger then looks for it in every list the court publishes — advance, daily and supplementary — including supplementary items added late in the evening.
By party name, by advocate name or by case number. Advocate-wise covers a whole chamber's morning in one search, which is how the following day actually gets staffed.
The alert carries the court number and the item number, in the evening. You decide the next morning's travel with the list already in front of you.
See the cause list guide and advocate-wise cause lists.
The board carries two numbers that matter: the court number and the item number being taken up now. Set against your own item, they are the only honest estimate of how much of the morning you still have.
For a practice that crosses between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack that estimate is worth more than usual, because the alternative to knowing is sitting in a corridor for three hours or missing the item by twenty minutes. Boards run live through court hours, generally 10:30 to 16:30 IST, across the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT — 527 courts and 426 benches.
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Lawgger carries cause lists for around 700 district courts nationally, for any court on any date, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories. Odisha's district courts are covered on exactly the same terms as the High Court.
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Odia is the language a great deal of this state's work is done in — instructions, notes, conversations with clients — even where the brief itself is in English. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. The current list of supported languages is shown in the app.
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2.07 crore Indian judgments in full text — the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts — joined by 1.28 crore case-to-section links and 18 lakh citation links, with 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions alongside them.
Case-to-section links are the part worth dwelling on. They are what lets you start from a provision and see what has been decided under it, rather than starting from a case name you already half-remember. For a practice built on state legislation and land law that is often the better direction of travel.
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Lawgger holds 21 statutory limitation clocks. It computes the running period from the dates you give it, shows what remains, and rolls past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations so the date returned is a working date rather than an arithmetical one. Where an application under section 5 will be needed, it raises a condonation flag.
That is a computation on your dates. It is not advice and it does not replace your own reading of the Limitation Act. Try the limitation calculator and see practice management for turning dates into tasks with owners.
The court's name is the Orissa High Court. The state was renamed Odisha in 2011, but the court's own name was not changed with it, so both spellings are in daily use — advocates say Orissa High Court and searchers frequently type Odisha High Court. Lawgger treats the two as the same court.
It sits at Cuttack, which is not the state capital — Bhubaneswar is. It is one of a small number of Indian High Courts whose seat is in a different city from the seat of government, which splits a good deal of professional life in Odisha across two cities.
The list for a hearing day goes out on the evening before, and supplementary items can be added later the same night. There is no fixed clock time. Lawgger shows it as soon as the court publishes it and alerts you if a matter on your watchlist appears.
Yes, inside the app. The board runs live through court hours, roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, and shows the item number being taken up in each court. Lawgger carries live boards for the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT. This marketing website does not show live court data.
Yes. Around 700 district courts nationally, for any court on any date, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories. Odisha district matters are tracked by CNR on the same terms as High Court matters, with a plain-words digest of every order.
Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. You can put a research question in the language you think in and read the answer in it, while the judgment behind the answer stays available in full text, in the language it was delivered in, pin-cited to the page it came from.
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