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.
Client Confidences Survive the Brief
Upholding a two-year suspension, the Supreme Court held on 21 August 2026 that an advocate cannot use information received in confidence against his client — even after the client becomes his adversary.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyEx Parte Proceedings Under the DV Act
How Delhi magistrates proceed when a respondent ignores notice in a Domestic Violence Act case, the orders that can follow under Sections 18 to 23, and the correctives — recall, appeal and alteration.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyCounselling, Welfare Experts and Closed Doors
Sections 14 to 16 of the DV Act equip courts with counselling directions, welfare-expert assistance and in-camera hearings — the statute's quieter provisions, used deliberately.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyMaintenance Without Divorce: Section 18 HAMA
A Hindu wife's substantive right to be maintained — including while living separately on the grounds in Section 18(2) — independent of any matrimonial or criminal proceeding.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyPleading Poverty in Maintenance Cases
Claiming joblessness rarely defeats maintenance: how Delhi courts impute income to able-bodied payers, the affidavit discipline that exposes suppression, and what each side must prove.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyWithdrawing Consent in a 13B Divorce
Consent must subsist until the decree. What happens when a spouse resiles between the first and second motion, the fate of part-performed settlements, and the remedies that remain.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Matrimonial & FamilyAnatomy of a Contested Divorce
From petition and interim applications through mediation, evidence and decree — how a contested divorce actually moves through a Delhi Family Court, and where cases spend their time.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Criminal LawCase Diaries and Status Reports in Bail
The court reads the case diary; the defence cannot. What Section 192 BNSS protects, what a status report must disclose, and how both sides litigate around the asymmetry.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Criminal LawAnticipatory Bail in POCSO Cases
POCSO contains no statutory bar on anticipatory bail — but the presumptions, the child-protection architecture and legislative severity make these the most exacting applications in criminal practice.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Criminal LawPassports, LOCs and Leave to Travel
Bail conditions, Passports Act impounding and look-out circulars are three different instruments. Keeping them distinct — and negotiating calibrated travel conditions — at the grant stage.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateMSME Dues: Samadhaan or Suit?
Statutory compound interest and the 75% pre-deposit make the Facilitation Council route powerful — but not always right. Comparing the two recovery roads factor by factor.
Read → 28 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateThe Conciliation Stage Before the MSEFC
Every delayed-payment reference passes through Section 18(2) conciliation before arbitration. Why the table matters, the confidentiality that protects it, and the errors both sides make.
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.