A court with an Original Side older than most of the country's court practice, a jurisdiction that crosses open sea, and a body of case law deep enough that knowing what still stands is the whole job.
The Calcutta High Court sits at Kolkata with circuit sittings at Port Blair and Jalpaiguri, and it serves West Bengal and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Lawgger carries its causelists for any date, the live display board through court hours, and CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest of every order.
This is the only High Court in the country whose territory reaches across open sea, and the circuit sitting at Port Blair is the practical answer to that distance.
A matter arising in the islands belongs to this court. Before circuit sittings, that meant a journey across the Bay of Bengal for a hearing. The Port Blair circuit sitting exists so that the court comes to the litigant rather than the other way round.
Circuit sittings behave differently from a permanent bench in one respect that matters a great deal to an advocate: they are periodic. A matter listed at a circuit sitting is listed on a date when the court is actually sitting there, and if you are not watching on that date, the ordinary habit of checking a list every evening will not save you. Alerts do.
The Jalpaiguri circuit sitting does the same work for the northern districts of West Bengal, where the distance to Kolkata is measured in a night's travel rather than a morning's.
Lawgger treats all three sittings as one watchlist. Save the matter once and you are told which sitting has listed it, on what date, before which bench, at what item. You do not have to remember which circuit sitting is on this fortnight.
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India, established in 1862, and it still exercises an original jurisdiction alongside its appellate work. The Original Side — where the court hears suits at first instance — is not a curiosity here; it is a working part of the building, with its own case types, its own filing practice and its own list.
Which is why a Kolkata advocate speaks of "the Original Side list" as a distinct document, and why an advocate arriving from a state without an original side finds the vocabulary unfamiliar before finding the list unfamiliar. The glossary covers the terms; this page covers the reading.
Practically, the filter you need is the case-type prefix, not the page number. Lawgger applies it for you: a saved matter is found in whichever list it is in, and you are shown three fields — bench, court number, item number — instead of a document.
Three documents, three different obligations. The advance list gives notice of matters expected on a future working day — good for preparation, no guarantee. The causelist for the day, published the evening before, is the operative one. The supplementary list carries additions made after that: mentioning matters, freshly numbered matters, matters released by another bench. It arrives later the same evening and sometimes on the hearing morning.
Read the cause list guide for the full anatomy, including what to check when your matter does not appear at all.
Kolkata, Port Blair or Jalpaiguri. If you are watching more than one, do not choose — save the matter and let all three be watched at once.
Party names are approximate because they are entered by hand. A case number or a CNR is exact. Advocate-name search pulls out everything listed against you on a date — see advocate-wise cause lists, and how case status is followed for a matter that is pending rather than listed.
After that you stop searching. When any list at any sitting names the matter, Lawgger tells you that evening — bench, court number, item number — on your phone.
Through court hours — typically 10:30 to 16:30 IST — the board shows the item each court has reached. Item number and court number are the only two fields you need, and together they convert a listing into a decision about the next two hours.
Lawgger runs live boards for all 25 High Courts, the Supreme Court, and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT: 527 courts, 426 benches. For the notation — pass over, part heard, not reached — see the display board guide.
A district practice across West Bengal is not conducted in English, and the reported judgment is. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, Bengali among them: ask in Bengali, read the answer in Bengali, and the authority it is pin-cited to remains the original text you will cite in court. See how the legal AI works.
Depth of authority is only an advantage if you know which of it still stands.
Practising before the oldest High Court in India means reaching, more often than an advocate elsewhere would, for a judgment delivered a long time ago. Sometimes that is the strongest thing you can put before a bench. Sometimes it is the weakest, and you will not know which until the other side tells you.
An old authority can have been overruled by a larger bench. It can have construed a statute that has since been replaced — the shift from the Indian Penal Code to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is the current large example, and our IPC to BNS mapping exists for exactly that reason. It can have been distinguished so consistently that it survives on paper and nowhere else.
Lawgger attaches a good-law verdict to every authority it surfaces: still good law, or overruled, doubted, or displaced. And Authority Check runs the same test over a whole draft — paste the brief, get back a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each case in it, before it is filed.
Behind that sit 2.07 crore Indian judgments in full text, across the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, with 1.28 crore case-to-section links and 18 lakh citation links, and 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions. Every answer is pin-cited to the page. See good-law checking and legal research.
Cause lists are covered for around 700 district courts, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories. A West Bengal practice that runs from a subordinate court in a district headquarters up to the Original Side in Kolkata sits in one place, with the same alerts, the same plain-words order digests and the same limitation clocks applied to every level of it.
Those clocks — 21 statutory ones — roll past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations, and raise a section 5 condonation flag where a filing will be out of time. Try the limitation calculator.
Yes. The Port Blair circuit sitting of the Calcutta High Court is covered like any other sitting: causelists for the dates on which it sits, and CNR tracking that continues whichever sitting a matter is listed at. Because circuit sittings are periodic rather than continuous, alerts matter more here than a habit of checking.
Yes. The Jalpaiguri circuit sitting serves the northern districts of West Bengal and is covered on the same footing as Kolkata. Save a matter once and Lawgger tells you when it is listed there, with the court number, the bench and the item number, without your having to watch that sitting separately.
The Original Side is the part of this court's work where it hears suits at first instance rather than on appeal, a jurisdiction it has carried since its establishment as a chartered High Court. It runs alongside the Appellate Side, with its own case types and its own list traditions, which is why a Kolkata advocate speaks of the Original Side list as a distinct thing.
The court publishes the list for a hearing day on the evening before that day, with supplementary items sometimes following later that night or on the hearing morning. No fixed clock time is reliable. Lawgger shows the list as published and alerts you when a matter on your watchlist is named in it.
Yes, in the Lawgger app. The board is live through court hours, roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, and shows the item each court has reached. This marketing website does not carry live court data. Lawgger's live boards cover all 25 High Courts, the Supreme Court and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT.
Lawgger attaches a good-law verdict to every authority it surfaces: still good law, or overruled, doubted or otherwise displaced. For an old judgment that matters more, because the statute it construed may have been replaced and a larger bench may have taken a different view since. Authority Check will run the same test over every case cited in a draft brief.
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