Madhya Pradesh High Court

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Jabalpur, Indore and Gwalior in one view

Three sittings, hundreds of kilometres apart, each with its own working community. Lawgger carries all three lists and all three boards on one screen.

In short

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has its principal seat at Jabalpur with benches at Indore and Gwalior. Lawgger carries cause lists for all three sittings on any date, the live display boards through court hours, and CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest of every order.

3sittings, one watchlist 10:30–16:30 ISTboards live through court hours 1,607central and state acts 2.07 crorejudgments, full text Rs 1,999a month

Three sittings across a very large state

Madhya Pradesh is one of India's largest states by area, and its High Court answers that geography by sitting in three cities. The principal seat is at Jabalpur. There are benches at Indore and at Gwalior.

What makes this different from a court with a bench down the road is distance. The three cities are far enough apart that they support three effectively separate professional communities inside a single court. An Indore practice and a Jabalpur practice can overlap hardly at all in the people who staff them, even while they are the same court applying the same law.

For an advocate or a firm whose work crosses those lines — and institutional work usually does — the practical burden is triplication. Three lists to read. Three boards to watch. Three sets of tomorrow. Lawgger's contribution is to collapse that into one evening view.

SittingCityCause lists on LawggerLive display board
Principal seatJabalpurYes — any dateYes — through court hours
BenchIndoreYes — any dateYes — through court hours
BenchGwaliorYes — any dateYes — through court hours

Which matters go to which sitting is governed by the court's own rules and notifications. Lawgger shows the listings as published; it does not allocate them.

A common question

How do I follow a matter at a bench I am not travelling to?

Four steps. After the first one, everything else happens without you asking.

1

Add the case

By case number or CNR. One entry per matter, whichever sitting it belongs to. You are building a picture of your practice, not a folder for each building.

2

Confirm the sitting

Lawgger shows which sitting the matter is before, its current stage, the last order and the next date — all read from the record rather than inferred.

3

Get the board when that court sits

Through court hours you can see the item being taken up in the courtroom your matter is in, at Gwalior or Indore or Jabalpur, from wherever you happen to be.

4

Get the next day's list in the evening

When lists are published you are told which sitting, which court, which item — and told again if a supplementary item is added later the same night.

See the cause list guide for how advance, daily and supplementary lists differ, and advocate-wise cause lists for finding your listings by name rather than by number.

Live, through court hours

The live display board

The board carries the court number and the item number being taken up now. Against your own item, that is the only honest estimate of when you will be reached — and at a three-sitting court it is also how a chamber keeps track of a junior holding a brief three hundred kilometres away.

The notation is short and worth knowing. Pass over: called and stood down, to be taken again later in the same sitting. Part heard: continuing from an earlier day, and capable of holding a court for a long time. Not reached: the court did not get to it.

Lawgger's boards run live, generally 10:30 to 16:30 IST, 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. Read the display board guide.

Below the High Court

District courts across Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh has a very large district-court footprint, and much of what reaches the High Court has come up through it. Lawgger carries cause lists for around 700 district courts nationally, for any court on any date, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories.

The mechanics do not change between tiers. Save a matter by CNR and every order arrives as a plain-words digest with the next date attached: interim stay granted; counter due in four weeks. Short enough to forward to a client without rewriting, which is most of the point.

See case status, case tracking and what a CNR number is.

Hindi, and the ten languages Lawgger works in

Madhya Pradesh's district practice runs substantially in Hindi. That is not a footnote about accessibility; it is how the work is done — instructions taken in Hindi, notes written in Hindi, outcomes explained to a client in Hindi, and only the High Court brief drafted in English.

Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. Ask a research question in Hindi and read the answer in Hindi. The judgment underneath stays in full text, in the language it was delivered in, pin-cited to the page — which is what keeps the answer citable rather than merely readable. See how the AI works and why the pin-cite is the answer to hallucination. The current list of supported languages is shown in the app.

Research

Pin-cited, and checked for good law

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. Alongside them sit 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions, which is the fact that matters when your argument turns on a state amendment rather than on the central provision everyone quotes.

Every answer is pin-cited to the page it came from. Every authority carries a good-law verdict: still good law, or overruled, doubted or otherwise displaced. And you can work backwards — paste a draft brief into Authority Check and get a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each case in it, before filing.

See legal research and good-law checking. If you are comparing what you pay today, see what legal research costs in India.

Depth

2.07 crore judgments

Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, full text rather than headnotes, with the statute book alongside.

Accuracy

Pin-cited, every time

Each proposition points at the page it came from. You verify before you cite, which is the whole difference.

Safety

Authority Check

A Table of Authorities with a verdict against every case in your draft. Overruled authority is caught early.

Deadlines

Clocks that know the calendar

21 statutory limitation clocks. Give Lawgger the dates and it computes the running period, shows what remains, and rolls past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations so the date returned is a working date. Where a filing will need an application under section 5, the clock raises a condonation flag rather than assuming the point away.

Vacations are the quiet reason a period that looked comfortable turns out not to be — particularly for a practice moving files between three cities where the certified copy, the settling and the filing may happen in three different weeks.

It is a computation on the dates you supply, not advice, and no substitute for your own reading of the Limitation Act. Try the limitation calculator, and see practice management for turning dates into tasks with owners.

Questions

MP High Court, answered

The principal seat is at Jabalpur, with benches at Indore and Gwalior. The three cities sit far enough apart that each supports its own body of High Court practice, which is why an advocate with a state-wide practice effectively follows three sets of lists.

Yes. Lawgger carries cause lists and live display boards for all three sittings — Jabalpur, Indore and Gwalior — with the same coverage at each. Matters from all three go into one watchlist, so you get a single evening view rather than three separate checks.

The list for a hearing day is published on the evening before, and supplementary items can be added later the same night. There is no fixed clock time. Lawgger shows each sitting's list as soon as the court publishes it and alerts you when a matter you are watching appears.

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

Add the CNR number to your watchlist once. Lawgger follows the matter from there and sends a plain-words digest of every order that comes on the file, with alerts when it is listed, adjourned or disposed.

Yes. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, and Hindi is central to it because a very large part of Madhya Pradesh's district practice is conducted in Hindi. You can ask in Hindi and read the answer in Hindi, with the judgment behind it still in full text and pin-cited to the page.

Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year, about Rs 66 a day. There is a 14-day free trial with no card required. GST invoices are issued and you can cancel at any time. See pricing.

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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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