The PHHC cause list for any date, the display board live while the court sits, and CNR tracking that tells you what an order actually did.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court sits at Chandigarh and is the High Court for Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Lawgger carries its cause lists for any date, the PHHC display board live through court hours, and CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest of every order.
Almost every Indian High Court has a nickname among the people who practise there. This one is different in degree. At Chandigarh the court is spoken of as PHHC so routinely that the full name sounds slightly formal in a chamber. Juniors say it. Clerks say it. It goes into file notes.
The result is a vocabulary problem that other courts do not have: a very large share of the searches made about this court are made in the abbreviation. PHHC display board. PHHC cause list today. PHHC case status. Someone who writes only "Punjab and Haryana High Court" and someone who writes only "PHHC" are looking for the same thing and, more often than they should be, finding different pages.
So this page carries both, deliberately and without pretending otherwise. Wherever the abbreviation is what an advocate would actually say, it is what is written. Where the exact name matters — the court's jurisdiction, its seat — the full name is used. That is the whole of the trick, and it is worth stating out loud because no other court page on this site needs it.
No other High Court in India applies two full state statute books plus a union territory's administration from a single seat. That is not trivia. It is a research problem.
A judge of this court can hear a Punjab matter before lunch and a Haryana matter after it. An advocate can appear in both on the same day. The central law is common; the state law is not. Two neighbouring states legislate separately, amend separately, and diverge over time on the subjects that produce the most litigation — land, tenancy, municipal administration, local taxation, service conditions.
Which produces the most demanding version of a problem every advocate has: an authority can be perfectly current under one state's statute and displaced under the other's amendment. The case looks the same. The headnote looks the same. What changed was the provision it was decided under, in the other state.
This is why good-law checking is worth more at Chandigarh than almost anywhere else. Lawgger checks every authority it surfaces and returns a verdict — still good law, or overruled, doubted or otherwise displaced — and carries 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions so the statute you are reading is the one in force in the state you are arguing in.
You can also work backwards. Paste a draft brief into Authority Check and Lawgger returns a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each case you have cited. The catch happens at the drafting table rather than at the podium. See good-law checking and legal research.
Nothing here asserts any proposition of Punjab or Haryana law. What Lawgger does is show you the material and flag what has moved. The argument remains yours.
The single most searched thing about this court, and the one most worth having on a phone.
A board is a running order. It tells you the court number and the item number being taken up right now. Set against your own item, that is the only reliable answer to the question every advocate is actually asking: how long have I got?
Three pieces of notation are worth knowing before you read one:
Lawgger's boards run live, generally 10:30 to 16:30 IST, across the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT — 527 courts and 426 benches. At PHHC that means you can be in one courtroom and still see what is happening in another, which in a building with a large number of simultaneous sittings is not a luxury.
To be plain: this website does not show live court data. The boards are in the app. Read the display board guide for the rest of the notation.
By case number or CNR. From that point Lawgger looks for it in every list the court publishes — advance, daily and supplementary — instead of you scrolling through a long document each evening.
By party name, by advocate name, or by case number. Advocate-wise reading is how most chambers actually work, because one name accounts for everything that chamber has to cover tomorrow.
When a matter you are watching is listed, you are told: which court, which item, which day. If a supplementary item appears later the same night, you are told that too.
See the cause list guide for how advance, daily and supplementary lists differ, and advocate-wise cause lists for finding listings by name.
A practice at Chandigarh is rarely only a practice at Chandigarh. Matters arrive from district courts on both sides of the state line and go back to them. 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.
Track a district matter by CNR and every order that comes on the file arrives as a plain-words digest — interim stay granted; counter due in four weeks — rather than as something to be decoded. That line is short enough to forward to a client without rewriting it, which is most of the value. See case status and case tracking.
The working life of this region runs in Punjabi, in Hindi and in English, often within the same conference. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. Ask a question in the language you are thinking in, read the answer in it, and still open the judgment in full text, in the language it was delivered in, pin-cited to the page. The current list of supported languages is shown in the app.
The pin-cite is what keeps a translated answer usable. Without it you have a summary, and a summary is not an authority. See how Lawgger's AI works.
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, every answer pin-cited to the page it came from. Alongside them, 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions, which is the fact that actually matters when you practise under two state statute books in the same week.
On deadlines, Lawgger holds 21 statutory limitation clocks. They roll past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations, so the date returned is a working date. Where an application under section 5 will be needed, the clock raises a condonation flag rather than leaving it to be noticed. It is a computation on the dates you give it — not advice, and no substitute for reading the Limitation Act for the matter in hand.
See legal research, good-law checking and the limitation calculator.
PHHC is how advocates abbreviate the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The display board is the live running order inside the court, showing which item number is being taken up in which courtroom while the court is sitting. Lawgger carries it live through court hours, roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, inside the app.
It sits at Chandigarh and is the High Court for the State of Punjab, the State of Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. It is the only High Court in India serving two full states and a union territory from a single seat, which means one bench works across more than one state statute book.
Yes, in the Lawgger app. The board runs live through court hours and shows the item currently being taken up in each court, so you can judge pace from your chamber or from another courtroom. This marketing website does not show live court data; the boards are in the app.
The list for a hearing day goes out on the evening before it, and supplementary items can follow later the same night. There is no fixed clock time. Lawgger shows the list as soon as the court publishes it and alerts you if a matter on your watchlist appears, so you do not have to keep checking.
Cause lists carry the advocate's name against each item, so a list can be read advocate-wise rather than case-wise. Lawgger lets you search a list by party name, advocate name or case number, and once you have saved your matters it does the search for you every time a list is published.
Yes. Lawgger carries 1,607 central and state acts across all 37 jurisdictions, which includes the Punjab and Haryana statute books alongside central legislation. Every authority you cite from them is checked for good law, so an amendment in one state does not quietly leave you relying on a displaced provision.
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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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