One High Court seat, and a state whose litigation lives mostly in its districts. This page starts where most Bihar advocates actually work.
The Patna High Court, established in 1916, sits at Patna and serves Bihar from a single seat. Lawgger carries its cause lists for any date, the live display board through court hours, CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest, and cause lists for district courts across Bihar.
Most court pages open with the High Court and put the district tier near the bottom. This one is written the other way round, because that is the shape of the profession here.
Bihar has one High Court seat. It has no separate benches elsewhere in the state. Above that single seat sits a body of litigation whose volume lives overwhelmingly in the districts — the civil courts, the sessions courts, the magistrates' courts in every district headquarters and subdivision. Most advocates in Bihar will never file at Patna. A great many who do also carry a district practice that pays for the week.
So the honest version of what Lawgger does for a Bihar advocate is: it covers your district court first, and the High Court as the tier above 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. Save a matter by CNR and you stop looking things up. Every order arrives as a plain-words digest with the next date attached; every listing arrives as an alert with the court number and item number.
See case status, case tracking and what a CNR number is.
Courts publish in layers, and it is worth knowing which layer you are reading. An advance list gives notice some days ahead. The daily list is the running order for a particular hearing day and goes out on the evening before it. A supplementary list adds items after the daily list has been published, sometimes late the same night.
That last one catches people. An advocate who checked at eight o'clock and then closed the phone will not know about an item added at ten. Lawgger keeps watching after you have stopped: if a matter you have saved appears in any list, you are told, with the court number and the item number.
A list can be read by party name, by advocate name or by case number. Advocate-wise is how a chamber actually plans a morning, because one name accounts for everything that has to be staffed. See the cause list guide and advocate-wise cause lists.
The board carries the court number and the item number being taken up now. That is what tells you whether to walk over or sit down.
The notation you will meet: pass over — called and stood down, to be taken again later in the sitting. Part heard — continuing from an earlier day, and capable of holding a court a long time. Not reached — the court did not get to it, and it returns to the cycle.
Lawgger's boards run live through court hours, generally 10:30 to 16:30 IST, across 527 courts and 426 benches. This website does not show live court data; the boards are in the app. Read the display board guide.
A plain, procedural answer. Nothing here is advice about your case.
The next date of hearing is not calculated. It is recorded. When the court passes an order, the next date goes on the file with it, and that is the only place the answer honestly comes from — the record of the case, not an estimate.
So the whole task is: find the record, read the last order, take the date. Every case has a CNR number, a single identifier that stays with the matter for its whole life. Give Lawgger the CNR once and you have finished the task permanently.
From that point the app sends you the digest of each order in plain words, with the next date attached — interim stay granted; counter due in four weeks; next date fixed — and it can send it in Hindi. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. Ek baar CNR daal dijiye, phir har order ka matlab aur agli tarikh aapke paas aayegi. The current list of supported languages is shown in the app.
What this section does not do is tell you what an order means for your matter. That is for the advocate on the file. See what a CNR number is and how case status works.
The Patna High Court was established in 1916. That is more than a century of authority, and a Bihar practice reaches back into a good deal of it — old land matters, old tenancy questions, lines of authority that have been argued in the same terms for decades.
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 joining them, and 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions. Patna's own century sits inside that.
Two things follow. Every answer is pin-cited to the page: a citation you can open and read in place, not a paraphrase with a case name attached. And every authority carries a good-law verdict — still good law, or overruled, doubted or otherwise displaced. Old authority is exactly where this matters most, because a case that has been cited comfortably for thirty years is not thereby safe.
Paste a draft 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.
Lawgger holds 21 statutory limitation clocks. Give it the dates and it computes the running period and shows what remains, rolling past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations so the answer is a working date rather than an arithmetical one. Where a filing will need an application under section 5, it raises a condonation flag instead of leaving the point to be noticed.
In a high-volume district practice this is the difference between a system and a memory. It is a computation on the dates you supply — not advice, and no substitute for your own reading of the Limitation Act for the matter in hand. Try the limitation calculator, and see practice management for turning dates into tasks with owners.
No. The Patna High Court sits at Patna and serves Bihar from that single seat. There are no separate benches in other cities, which is why so much of the state's litigation is carried by its district courts and why a Bihar practice is usually a district practice with High Court work above it.
Yes. 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. Bihar district matters are tracked by CNR on exactly the same terms as High Court matters, with a plain-words digest of every order.
The list for a hearing day is published on the evening before, and supplementary items can follow later the same night. There is no fixed clock time to rely on. Lawgger shows it as soon as the court publishes it and alerts you if a matter you are watching appears.
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 website does not show live court data.
The next date is recorded on the case file itself, and it is read from the record rather than worked out. Save the CNR number in Lawgger once and every order that comes on the file arrives as a plain-words digest with the next date attached, in Hindi if you prefer. There is nothing further to look up.
Yes. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, Hindi among them, which matters in Bihar because a very large share of district work is conducted in Hindi. Ask in Hindi, read the answer in Hindi, and the judgment behind it is still in full text and pin-cited to the page it came from.
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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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