Calcutta High Court
Both the Original Side, where the court exercises ordinary original civil jurisdiction, and the Appellate Side. Calcutta High Court page.
Kolkata practises before the oldest High Court in India, and it shows in the briefs. A Calcutta chamber cites authority older than most of the country's legal institutions — which is a strength right up until the moment nobody has checked whether the case still stands.
The Calcutta High Court exercises an ordinary original civil jurisdiction, so a Kolkata chamber can run a suit, a writ and a Bankshall criminal matter in one week. Lawgger carries the listings and live boards for each, with CNR tracking, 2.07 crore judgments checked for good law, drafting and billing at Rs 1,999 a month. Run from Jammu & Kashmir; no Kolkata office.
It is a fair question to ask a Kolkata chamber and an awkward one to answer. A great deal of the law that a Calcutta practice argues — on easements, on trusts and endowments, on partition, on tenancy, on the older commercial doctrines that the Original Side worked out long before they were codified anywhere else — was settled in judgments handed down a very long time ago. Those authorities are not curiosities. They are the ratio, and juniors are still sent to find them.
The risk is not that the old case is missing. In a chamber with a good precedent file it is usually to hand. The risk is that the old case has since been overruled, narrowed to its facts, distinguished into irrelevance, or quietly displaced by a statute that nobody connected to it. A brief built on an authority in that condition looks strong until the other side stands up.
Lawgger holds 2.07 crore judgments in full text across the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, with every answer pin-cited to the page it came from. We would rather not quote you an earliest year, because the honest answer is that the archive is the reported record, not a promise about a particular century. The useful claim is the other one: every authority we give you carries a verdict — still good law, or overruled — and 18 lakh citation links let you follow a case forward to what later courts actually did with it. That is what makes an old authority safe to use. See research, good-law checking, and the glossary, where the difference between overruled, distinguished and per incuriam is set out properly.
Both the Original Side, where the court exercises ordinary original civil jurisdiction, and the Appellate Side. Calcutta High Court page.
The city's principal civil forum below the High Court, and where a substantial part of an ordinary Kolkata civil practice is conducted.
The city's sessions and magistrate courts, where the criminal docket — including the cheque-dishonour work that sustains many chambers — is run.
Company and insolvency matters, carried alongside the NCLAT and CAT boards so all of it sits in one watchlist.
The Calcutta High Court's circuit sittings, including for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Kolkata counsel appear at both, and both are covered.
Cause lists run for roughly 700 district courts across 722 districts, so an outstation matter is followed exactly as a Kolkata one is.
Calcutta writes it as one word, causelist, and works to the familiar sequence: the advance list, the daily list published the evening before, then the supplementary list and the additions that arrive late and rearrange the morning. On the Original Side a list can also carry a mixture of motions, applications and long causes that behave very differently once the court sits.
Lawgger matches all of that against your own matters and returns an answer rather than a document — listed, before which bench, at what serial. You can also search a causelist for any court on any date by party name, advocate name or case number, which is how a junior confirms that a matter a client swears is "next month" is in fact tomorrow, and how a chamber checks whether the other side's counsel is engaged elsewhere the same morning.
See causelist search and causelist by advocate.
The live display board answers the only question that matters between ten thirty and lunch: what is being taken up, and how far away is mine. Lawgger carries live boards for all 25 High Courts, the Supreme Court and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT — 527 courts and 426 benches in all — running during court hours, broadly 10:30 to 16:30 IST.
For an advocate with a matter on the Original Side and another at the City Civil Court the same morning, that is the difference between spending an hour usefully and spending it in a corridor. When a matter is passed over or an order is passed while you are elsewhere, the plain-words digest tells you what happened — "interim stay granted; counter due in four weeks" — rather than leaving you to interpret a status line at nine that night.
Said plainly: this website cannot show you a live board or a causelist. Those run inside the app, against official court records, and only while the courts are sitting. See live display boards and case status by CNR.
This is the single most useful thing a Kolkata junior can do before a brief is settled on an old line of cases. Paste the draft in, and Authority Check returns a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each entry: still good law, or overruled. What used to be two evenings of pulling each citation, tracing its subsequent history and hoping you had not missed a later bench becomes a list you can act on before the conference rather than after it.
It is worth being precise about what this does and does not do. It tells you the current status of each authority you have relied on and points you at the judgments that dealt with it. It does not settle whether an old decision is distinguishable on your facts, or whether a statute has displaced the reasoning — those are arguments, and they are yours. And Lawgger does not replace a court-accepted reporter's headnotes or pagination; it gives you the judgment text, the paragraph, and whether the authority survives. See Authority Check, why every citation here is real, and the comparison pages where we set out what the established publishers still do better.
The High Court record is in English. The client is often not, and neither are the documents that decide a partition or a tenancy — a family arrangement written decades ago, a rent receipt book, a witness's account. Kolkata advocates translate all day without calling it that.
Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, Bengali among them, so a question can be put in the language you thought of it in and the pin-cited answer still points at the English text of the judgment you will cite. See Lawgger AI.
Rs 1,999 a month, or Rs 19,999 a year. One subscription covering research across 2.07 crore judgments, causelists, live boards, CNR tracking, 21 statutory limitation clocks that roll past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations, drafting from 3,500+ Indian formats across 61 categories, and GST billing.
Set that against what research alone costs. SCC Online, Manupatra and LexisNexis are commonly quoted to Indian chambers between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 3 lakh a year for a single user — for research, and nothing else. We are not saying those are poor products; decades of editorial work sit behind their headnotes and their reporters' pagination, and a Calcutta practice has good reasons to keep a reporter. We are saying the price was set for an institution with a library budget, and most chambers here are not that. Fourteen days free, no card. See pricing, the comparisons and practice management.
Yes. Causelists, the live display board and CNR case tracking cover the Calcutta High Court on both the Original Side and the Appellate Side. Research carries the court's judgments in full text as part of 2.07 crore judgments from the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, with every answer pin-cited to the page it came from.
Yes. Lawgger covers all 25 High Courts together with their benches and circuit sittings, which includes the Calcutta High Court's sittings at Jalpaiguri and at Port Blair for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Kolkata counsel who appear at either see those matters in the same watchlist, on the same subscription.
No. Lawgger has no office, address or telephone line in Kolkata. The company is registered in Jammu & Kashmir, is DPIIT-recognised, and it serves advocates across India over the internet. Kolkata advocates are among the people it is built for, but it is not located in the city. About Lawgger.
Lawgger holds 2.07 crore judgments in full text from the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, including the older reported record a Calcutta practice relies on. Rather than quote an earliest year we would rather say the useful thing: what makes an old authority safe to cite is not that it exists in the archive but that it carries a current good-law verdict.
Yes. Every authority Lawgger gives you carries a verdict — still good law, or overruled — and 18 lakh citation links let you follow a case forward to what later courts did with it. Authority Check applies the same test to a whole brief and returns a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each entry.
Yes. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, Bengali among them. A question can be asked in Bengali and the pin-cited answer still points at the English text of the judgment, which is the form the High Court record and the reported authority take. It is useful where the client conversation and the citation are not in the same language.
Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year, about Rs 66 a day. There is no Kolkata rate and no per-seat charge. That single subscription covers research, causelists, display boards, CNR tracking, 21 statutory limitation clocks, drafting from 3,500+ formats and GST billing. Fourteen days free with no card. See pricing.
Fourteen days, the full product, no card. Long enough to run Authority Check over one real brief.
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