High Court of J&K and Ladakh

High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh: Srinagar, Jammu, and home ground

Two wings, two union territories, and the one court on this site where Lawgger can say it was built inside the jurisdiction.

In short

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has wings at Srinagar and at Jammu, and serves the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh. Lawgger carries its cause lists for both wings on any date, the live display board through court hours, and CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest. Lawgger is built in Jammu & Kashmir.

2 wingsSrinagar and Jammu 2 UTsJ&K and Ladakh DPIITrecognised, registered in J&K 10:30–16:30 ISTboard live through court hours Rs 1,999a month

This is where Lawgger was built

Every other court page on this site describes software arriving from somewhere else. This one does not.

Lawgger is a private limited company incorporated in Jammu & Kashmir, with CIN U62011JK2025PTC017648. It is DPIIT-recognised and was seeded by JKEDI, the Jammu & Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute. It was showcased at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025.

It was built around this court. The problems it answers — an evening list you cannot get at from home, a board you can only read by standing in front of it, an order whose effect a client wants explained in one line — were observed at Srinagar and Jammu first, not identified as a market segment from a distance.

Two honest qualifications. First, being built here does not make the product better at this court than at any other; the coverage is the same across the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts. Second, this is the only place on the site where a state is claimed as home, because it is the only state where the company is registered. Lawgger has no offices in other cities and does not pretend otherwise. See about Lawgger and legal software in Srinagar.

Structure

Two wings, one court

The court has a wing at Srinagar and a wing at Jammu. Each runs its own sittings and its own lists. It is one court, but the working day at one wing is not the working day at the other.

An advocate whose practice spans the Valley and Jammu therefore carries two rosters in their head: two sets of matters, two lists to read, two boards to follow. Firms and chambers that act for institutional clients across both regions carry more.

Lawgger carries both in one watchlist. Matters at either wing sit in the same place, come up in the same evening view, and generate the same alerts. You are not choosing a wing when you open the app; you are looking at your practice.

What this page does not do is state administrative arrangements — which matters sit where, or what varies through the year. Those are set by the court, they change, and getting them wrong on a website helps nobody. Lawgger shows the listings as the court publishes them.

Wing

Srinagar

Cause lists for any date, the live display board through court hours, and CNR tracking on every matter you save.

Wing

Jammu

The same coverage, the same watchlist, the same alerts — so both wings appear together rather than separately.

Jurisdiction

Two union territories

The court is the High Court for the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and for the Union Territory of Ladakh. That is why its name carries both, and it is the whole of what needs saying here.

Lawgger's coverage follows the court. District courts across both union territories sit inside the roughly 700 district courts covered nationally, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories. A matter at a district court in either territory is watched exactly as a High Court matter is: saved once by CNR, then reported to you.

The honest local argument

Winter, and why a list on a phone matters more here

Most of what is written about legal software describes saving time. Here the argument is different, and it is worth making plainly rather than dressing up.

Travel between Jammu and Srinagar is genuinely weather-dependent for part of the year. The road is a mountain road. Flights are subject to conditions. A journey that takes a morning in one season can take a day, or fail, in another — and the decision whether to make it has to be taken the night before, not on arrival.

An advocate who learns at nine in the evening that a matter is listed at item 4 makes a different decision from one who learns it is not listed at all. That is not a productivity gain. It is a night of arrangements, or no arrangements: a car, a flight, a junior briefed, a client told.

The same sentence would be nearly meaningless written about Chennai, where the court is across town and the weather does not close a road. It is true here, which is why it is only on this page.

Lists and boards

Cause lists and the live board

Courts publish in layers. An advance list gives notice some days ahead. The daily list is the running order for a hearing day, published on the evening before. A supplementary list adds items after that, sometimes late the same night — which is the one that catches an advocate who checked early and stopped.

Lawgger keeps watching after you have stopped. Save a matter once by case number or CNR, and if it appears in any list at either wing you are told, with the court number and the item number. Lists can be read by party name, by advocate name or by case number. Between listings, case status is what tells you where the matter has actually got to.

Through court hours the display board gives the item currently being taken up in each court, live, generally 10:30 to 16:30 IST. Lawgger carries boards across 527 courts and 426 benches — the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT. This website does not show live court data; the boards are in the app.

See the cause list guide, advocate-wise cause lists and the display board guide.

Language

A practice that runs in several languages

Professional life across these two union territories is not conducted in one language. An advocate here moves between Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, Hindi and English in the course of an ordinary week — with clients, with witnesses, with juniors, with the record — while the High Court record itself is in English.

Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. Ask in the language you think in and read the answer in it. The judgment behind the answer stays in full text, in the language it was delivered in, pin-cited to the page — which is what keeps it an authority you can cite rather than a summary you have to trust. See how the AI works and why the pin-cite matters. The current list of supported languages is shown in the app.

Research

Research and the statute book

Lawgger carries 2.07 crore Indian judgments in full text — 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.

The statute-book coverage carries particular weight in a territory whose statute book has been substantially reorganised. What an advocate needs is the current statute book, alongside the authorities decided under it, with a good-law verdict against each — still good law, or overruled, doubted or otherwise displaced. Lawgger supplies all three and leaves the characterisation of what changed, and what follows from it, to the advocate.

Paste a draft brief into Authority Check and get a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each case cited, before filing rather than after. See legal research and good-law checking. On deadlines, Lawgger holds 21 statutory limitation clocks that roll past weekends, holidays and court vacations and raise a section 5 condonation flag where one is needed — see the limitation calculator.

Questions

J&K and Ladakh High Court, answered

It is the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. The name reflects the fact that the court serves two union territories — the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh. Older papers and older search habits still use the earlier name, and Lawgger treats both as the same court.

Yes. The court has wings at Srinagar and at Jammu, each running its own sittings and its own lists. Lawgger carries cause lists and the live display board for both, in one watchlist, so an advocate whose practice spans the Valley and Jammu is not keeping two sets of notes for one practice.

Yes. It is the High Court for the Union Territory of Ladakh as well as for the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. That is why the court's name carries both. Lawgger also covers district courts across both union territories.

Lawgger is registered in Jammu & Kashmir, India, with CIN U62011JK2025PTC017648. It is a DPIIT-recognised company, seeded by JKEDI, and it was shown at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025. It is software for advocates across India and has no offices in other cities. See about Lawgger.

Yes, inside the app. The board runs live through court hours, roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, and shows the item number being taken up in each court. Lawgger carries live boards for the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT. This marketing website does not show live court data.

Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. You can put a research question in one of them and read the answer in it, while the judgment behind that answer stays available in full text, in the language it was delivered in, pin-cited to the page it came from. The current list of supported languages is shown in the app.

Yes. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial of the full product and no card is required to begin. After the trial Lawgger is Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year, about Rs 66 a day, with GST invoices and cancellation at any time. See pricing.

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