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.
Judgment Without Trial: Order XIII-A Summary Judgment in Commercial Suits
Commercial courts can decree claims without oral evidence where a party has no real prospect of success and no compelling reason for trial exists. The test, the pre-issues window, conditional orders and the tactics on both sides.
Read → 13 September 2026 · Commercial & CorporateThe Price of Paying Late: Statutory Interest on MSME Dues Under Sections 15–17 MSMED Act
Forty-five days is the outer payment limit whatever the contract says; beyond it runs compound interest with monthly rests at three times the RBI bank rate, non-deductible for tax and protected by the Act's overriding effect.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Criminal LawBaptismal Certificate Is Not Statutory Age Proof: SC Reworks a POCSO Conviction
In Pynchemalangaki Bareh v. State of Meghalaya (2026 INSC 984), the Supreme Court held a baptismal certificate is not a prescribed document under Section 94 JJ Act, set aside the POCSO conviction for unproved minority, and convicted under Section 376(1) IPC instead.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Criminal LawFrom Death Row to Acquittal: Tutored Child Testimony in a POCSO Referred Trial
Declining to confirm a death sentence, the Madras High Court acquitted a man accused of assaulting five children, finding contradictions striking at the genesis of the case, indications of tutoring, and denial of a fair trial.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Commercial & CorporatePersonal Guarantee, Composite Transaction: SC Restores Guarantor to Arbitration
In NSDC v. Surya Wires (2026 INSC 977), the Supreme Court held that guarantees executed as pre-disbursement conditions form one composite transaction with the loan agreement, binding the guarantor to its arbitration clause via Section 7(5).
Read → 12 September 2026 · Criminal LawSovereign Assurance Does Not Rewrite the Sentence: SC on the 25-Year Extradition Cap
Dismissing Abu Salem's premature release plea (2026 INSC 982), the Supreme Court held the assurance to Portugal binds the Executive at the 25-year mark but does not convert life imprisonment into a fixed term, and jail-earned remission cannot be added.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyMediation Closes the File: 498A FIR Quashed After DV and Maintenance Cases Withdrawn
The Delhi High Court quashed a Sections 498A/406 FIR where mediation produced a comprehensive settlement — mutual consent divorce with withdrawal of DV and maintenance petitions — holding continuation would serve no meaningful purpose.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyThe Decree Ends the Marriage, Not the Obligation: Maintenance Survives Ex Parte Divorce
The Calcutta High Court held that an ex parte divorce decree obtained by the husband does not extinguish maintenance under Section 125 CrPC — a divorced wife who has not remarried remains a "wife" under Explanation (b).
Read → 12 September 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyA Decree Nobody Obeyed: Divorce Follows Non-Compliance with an RCR Decree
The Patna High Court granted divorce under Section 13(1A)(ii) HMA where cohabitation was never resumed for over a year after a restitution of conjugal rights decree, reversing the Family Court's dismissal.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Commercial & CorporateSufficient Interest, Public Interest: Third-Party Impleadment Before the CCI Upheld
A Delhi High Court Division Bench dismissed UltraTech's LPA, holding that Regulation 25 permits parties with sufficient interest — like the Builders' Association of India — to join cartel proceedings in furtherance of public interest.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyEvidence Before the Local Commissioner: Delhi HC Backs Family Court Case Management
Under Article 227, the Delhi High Court declined to disturb a Family Court order assigning evidence recording in a contested HMA trial to a Local Commissioner, finding the appointment order elaborate and open-court recording impractical.
Read → 12 September 2026 · Civil & PropertyNo Error Apparent: Debit Notes, Cheque Acknowledgments and the Limits of Review
The Delhi High Court dismissed review of an RFA judgment in a goods-recovery dispute: unproved debit notes could not reduce the claim, cheques operated as limitation acknowledgments, and review is not a second appeal.
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.