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.
The Interest Engine of the MSMED Act: Sections 15, 16 and 17
The 45-day payment ceiling no contract can stretch, compound interest at three times the RBI bank rate with monthly rests, and the tax provisions — Section 23 MSMED and 43B(h) — that reinforce them.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateUdyam Registration: The Gateway to MSME Remedies
The revised micro, small and medium thresholds effective 1 April 2025, why registration timing shapes a delayed-payment claim, and what MSME status unlocks — and does not.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateSummary Judgment Under Order XIII-A: Deciding Commercial Suits Without Trial
The “no real prospect” test, the window between service of summons and framing of issues, conditional orders, and how summary judgment applications are fought in Delhi’s commercial courts.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateThe 120-Day Limit for Written Statements in Commercial Suits
In commercial suits the right to file a written statement stands forfeited after 120 days from service of summons, and courts cannot relax it — what forfeiture entails and the battlegrounds it has created.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Criminal LawThe Duty to Report Under POCSO: Sections 19 to 22 Explained
POCSO criminalises silence: who must report child sexual offences, the personal liability of institutional heads under Section 21(2), and the good-faith and false-complaint safeguards.
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 → 21 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateSection 29A: The Clock on Domestic Arbitral Awards
The twelve-month deadline from completion of pleadings, the six-month consent extension, and the court’s powers on extension applications — terms, fee reduction and substitution of arbitrators.
Read → 21 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateSection 8: When a Civil Suit Runs Into an Arbitration Clause
The mandatory reference to arbitration, the first-statement deadline, the prima facie test after the 2015 amendment, non-arbitrable disputes, and suits framed to escape the clause.
Read → 20 August 2026 · Criminal LawUAPA Custody: 180 Days Survive BNSS – Advocate Manish Jha
A Delhi High Court Division Bench holds that the reference to Section 167 CrPC in Section 43D(2) UAPA must be read as Section 187 BNSS, preserving the 180-day investigation custody framework and denying default bail in the Red Fort blast case.
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.