Bengaluru, Dharwad, Kalaburagi. Most Karnataka practices are regional; the listing you miss is almost always at the seat you were not watching.
The High Court of Karnataka sits at Bengaluru with benches at Dharwad and Kalaburagi. Lawgger carries cause lists for all three sittings on any date, the live display boards through court hours, and CNR tracking with a plain-words digest of every order — plus full-text judgment search across the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts.
A state this wide does not produce one bar. It produces three, and most advocates belong firmly to one of them.
The principal seat, and the busiest. Cause lists, live board and CNR tracking all covered, alongside full-text search of the court's judgments.
The bench serving the north-western part of the state. Its lists and board sit in the same watchlist as Bengaluru, so nothing has to be checked separately.
The bench serving the Kalyana-Karnataka region. Covered on the same footing, with alerts when a saved matter is listed there.
The practical consequence of three seats is that a Karnataka practice tends to be regional rather than statewide. An advocate in Dharwad appears at Dharwad; an advocate in Bengaluru appears at Bengaluru. That works perfectly well until one matter, for whatever reason, is listed somewhere you are not — a transfer, a connected matter, an appeal taken by a client who has moved.
That single matter is the one that is missed, and it is missed for an unheroic reason: nobody checks the list of a court they are not appearing in that week. Lawgger's answer is that you never check anything. You save the matter and are told.
Once, at any seat. The CNR is permanent and survives changes to the case number, which makes it the right identifier for a matter that may move.
Bengaluru, Dharwad and Kalaburagi are read every time they publish. You are not choosing between them and you are not remembering to check.
The same evening the list is published. If it is at a seat you are not in, that is exactly when you want to know — while a colleague can still be briefed. See the cause list guide.
Through court hours — typically 10:30 to 16:30 IST — the board shows the item number each court has reached. Two fields, court number and item number, and between them they answer the only question you have between ten and four: how long have I got?
Lawgger runs live boards for all 25 High Courts, the Supreme Court and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT — 527 courts and 426 benches. The display board guide explains the notation: pass over, part heard, not reached, and what each means for whether your matter survives the day.
Bengaluru's High Court work reflects the city's economy. Company matters, commercial disputes, service matters, tax and intellectual property make up a larger share of the docket here than they would in a state whose economy runs on land and agriculture.
Those are precisely the fields where the governing authority moves. A view taken on a question of company law or tax five years ago may have been overruled by a larger bench, or displaced by an amendment, or quietly distinguished into irrelevance in a line of later decisions. In land or family practice, an old authority is often still the authority. In commercial practice, it frequently is not.
So the check that matters most on this docket is not "can I find a case" but "does this case still stand". Lawgger attaches a good-law verdict to every authority it surfaces — still good law, or overruled, doubted, displaced.
And Authority Check takes a whole draft at once: paste the brief, get back a Table of Authorities with a verdict against every case cited in it. An overruled authority is then caught at your desk, at the drafting stage, and not by opposing counsel. See good-law checking and drafting.
District practice across Karnataka runs substantially in Kannada while the reported judgment is in English. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages: ask in Kannada, read the answer in Kannada, and the authority stays pin-cited to the original text you will actually cite. See how the legal AI works.
Cause lists are covered for around 700 district courts across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories — any court, any date. For most advocates in this state the district work is the practice, and it gets the same alerts, the same plain-words order digests and the same tracking as the High Court matters do. See case tracking and how case status works.
Twenty-one statutory limitation clocks, rolling past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations so that the date you are shown is a working date rather than an arithmetical one. Where a filing will be out of time, a section 5 condonation flag is raised. That is a computation on the dates you supply — not advice on your matter. Use the limitation calculator, and see practice management for turning dates into tasks with owners.
Yes. Both benches are covered on the same footing as the principal seat at Bengaluru: cause lists for any date, the live display board through court hours, and CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest of every order. One watchlist spans all three seats, so a listing at a bench you are not sitting in still reaches you.
Yes, in the Lawgger app. The board runs live through court hours, roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, and shows which item each court has reached. This marketing website does not show live court data. In the app you can watch Bengaluru, Dharwad and Kalaburagi at the same time.
The court publishes the list for a hearing day on the evening before that day, and supplementary items can be added later that evening or on the hearing morning. No fixed clock time can be relied on. Lawgger shows the list as published and alerts you when a saved matter appears in it, at any of the three seats.
Save the CNR once in the app. It is a permanent identifier that survives changes to the case number, so the matter stays tracked for its whole life at whichever seat it is listed. Every order is digested into plain words and you are alerted when the matter is listed, adjourned, transferred or disposed.
Yes. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, Kannada among them. Ask a research question in Kannada and read the answer in Kannada, while the judgment it is pin-cited to remains the original text you will cite in court. District practice across Karnataka runs substantially in Kannada, so this is the ordinary way to work.
Yes. Every authority carries a good-law verdict: still good law, or overruled, doubted or otherwise displaced. Authority Check takes this further — paste a draft brief and you get back a Table of Authorities with a verdict against every case cited in it, so an overruled authority is caught at the draft stage rather than in court.
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.
Lawgger is software for advocates. It is not a law firm and gives no legal advice. Court information is shown as published in official court records.
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