These notes are written for litigants and for younger members of the Bar. They explain procedure as it operates in the Delhi courts — the sequence of steps, the timelines that matter, and the points at which a matter is commonly lost. They are general information, not advice on any particular case.
Certified Appeals vs SLP – Advocate Manish Jha
Before the SLP became the workhorse of Supreme Court practice, the Constitution provided appeals on certificate: Articles 132, 133 and 134, the oral-application route of Article 134A, and how they compare with Article 136.
Read → 23 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeDrafting and Filing an SLP – Advocate Manish Jha
The SLP paper-book under the Supreme Court Rules, 2013: synopsis and list of dates, questions of law, grounds and prayers, the Advocate-on-Record system, and clearing Registry defects before listing.
Read → 22 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeAppeals Against Acquittal: Section 419 BNSS (formerly 378 CrPC)
Who may challenge an acquittal, which court hears it, the leave and limitation requirements written into the statute, and how such appeals proceed.
Read → 22 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeAfter an SLP Fails: Review and Curative Petitions in the Supreme Court
Two narrow, rule-bound remedies stand between a dismissed special leave petition and absolute finality — and both are designed to fail in all but exceptional cases.
Read → 22 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeSLPs Against Interlocutory and Bail Orders: What Article 136 Permits
The constitutional text is wide enough to reach any order of any court — but the width of the power and the willingness to use it are two very different things.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeSecond Appeals Under Section 100 CPC: The Substantial Question of Law
What makes a question of law substantial, when concurrent findings can be disturbed for perversity, and the disciplines that decide Regular Second Appeals in the Delhi High Court.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeCriminal Revision Before the Delhi High Court: Sections 438 and 442 BNSS
The supervisory jurisdiction over subordinate criminal courts — which orders are revisable, the interlocutory bar, the one-revision rule, and how revision differs from Section 528 BNSS.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeDismissal of an SLP: What It Decides, and What It Leaves Open
In limine dismissals, speaking orders and dismissals after leave carry very different consequences — the doctrine of merger, surviving remedies before the High Court, and the withdrawal wrinkle.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeCondonation of Delay in SLPs: The 90 Days and What Comes After
Limitation for special leave petitions, the anatomy of a condonation application, the stricter scrutiny of government delay, and how delay and merits interact at admission.
Read → 20 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeRFA, FAO, RSA and LPA: Civil Appeals – Advocate Manish Jha
A practice note mapping civil appeals in the Delhi High Court: RFA under Section 96 CPC, FAO under Order XLIII, RSA on a substantial question of law, LPA to a Division Bench, and Section 13 commercial appeals, with limitation and stay.
Read → 20 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeSpecial Leave Petitions under Article 136 – Advocate Manish Jha
The special leave petition is not an appeal but a request for the Supreme Court's discretionary leave. A practice note on when it lies, the ninety and sixty day limitation, filing through an Advocate-on-Record, and what happens at the motion hearing.
Read → 20 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeAfter Leave: SLP to Appeal in Court – Advocate Manish Jha
Once the Supreme Court grants leave, a Special Leave Petition is registered as a civil or criminal appeal and heard on merits. A practice note on pleadings, interim arrangements, final hearing, merger, review and the curative petition.
Read →What Is Covered Here
The chamber writes on the areas in which it appears: criminal procedure under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, bail practice, matrimonial and family proceedings before the Delhi Family Courts, cheque dishonour and recovery, and proceedings before the NCLT and the Motor Accident Claims Tribunals. Notes on reported judgments of the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi are published with a link to the official text of the decision, so that a reader can verify the position rather than rely on a summary.
No article on this page identifies a client or discusses a pending matter conducted by the chamber. Where a statutory provision is cited, the section number is given so that a reader can verify it against the bare Act.