These notes are written for litigants and for younger members of the Bar. They explain procedure as it operates in the Delhi courts — the sequence of steps, the timelines that matter, and the points at which a matter is commonly lost. They are general information, not advice on any particular case.
Drafting an AB Application – Advocate Manish Jha
Structure, annexures, disclosure duties and interim prayers: the anatomy of a well-drafted anticipatory bail application in Delhi, and the drafting failures that recur in dismissed ones.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateMSME Dues from Government Buyers – Advocate Manish Jha
Government departments and PSUs are buyers under the MSMED Act: the 45-day ceiling, compound interest and the Samadhaan route apply to the State — with some added craft in enforcement.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateMSME Classification Criteria – Advocate Manish Jha
Micro, small or medium? The composite investment-and-turnover test, the thresholds revised from 1 April 2025, and why classification decides access to the delayed-payment remedy.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateAdmission-Denial of Documents – Advocate Manish Jha
In commercial suits every disclosed document must be admitted or denied on affidavit under four specified heads. How the Order XI regime works, and the cost of casual denials.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateInterest in Recovery Suits – Advocate Manish Jha
Pre-suit, pendente lite and future interest are governed by different sources — contract, the Interest Act, 1978 and Section 34 CPC. How to plead each period, and the commercial-transaction gateway.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Criminal LawPOCSO and Adolescent Cases – Advocate Manish Jha
Consent below eighteen is legally irrelevant under POCSO, yet adolescent relationship cases fill the dockets. The statutory grid, bail practice in this category, and the Law Commission's 2023 position.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Criminal LawSettlement in POCSO Cases – Advocate Manish Jha
POCSO offences cannot be compounded, and quashing on compromise is exceptional. What the inherent power under Section 528 BNSS can and cannot do, and the merits-based route that legitimately remains.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeInherent Powers: S.528 BNSS – Advocate Manish Jha
Quashing petition or revision? How Section 528 BNSS differs from the revisional jurisdiction under Sections 438 and 442, and how to choose — and plead — the right remedy in the Delhi High Court.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeFiling an RFA in the Delhi HC – Advocate Manish Jha
Limitation under Article 116, ad valorem court fee, Order XLI grounds discipline, stay applications and Registry practice: the filing mechanics that decide how a Regular First Appeal begins.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeSLPs and Concurrent Findings – Advocate Manish Jha
The Supreme Court rarely disturbs concurrent findings of fact. The narrow recognised gates — perversity, ignored evidence, wrong legal test — and how SLPs against concurrent decrees are framed.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Procedure & PracticeSettling a Case at the SLP Stage – Advocate Manish Jha
How settlements are recorded in the Supreme Court, what Article 142 can close along with the SLP, and the drafting that makes a compromise actually final across all connected proceedings.
Read → 27 August 2026 · Commercial & CorporateArbitrator Fees: Fourth Schedule – Advocate Manish Jha
Who fixes an arbitrator's fees, what the Fourth Schedule model scale provides, and the instruments — institutional rules, fee anchors, first procedural orders — that keep arbitration costs proportionate.
Read →What Is Covered Here
The chamber writes on the areas in which it appears: criminal procedure under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, bail practice, matrimonial and family proceedings before the Delhi Family Courts, cheque dishonour and recovery, and proceedings before the NCLT and the Motor Accident Claims Tribunals. Notes on reported judgments of the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi are published with a link to the official text of the decision, so that a reader can verify the position rather than rely on a summary.
No article on this page identifies a client or discusses a pending matter conducted by the chamber. Where a statutory provision is cited, the section number is given so that a reader can verify it against the bare Act.