CourtWatch blog
Notes on Indian courts, research and practice
Longer reads from the people building CourtWatch — what the daily rituals of litigation actually cost, and honest comparisons of the ways to run them. For the how-to walkthroughs, see the guides.
- 24 JUL 2026The 9 AM problem
Every litigating practice runs the same unpaid program before the courts assemble — the cause-list hunt, the item numbers, the "what happened yesterday" calls. Here is what that ritual costs, and what a morning looks like when the board watches itself.
- 24 JUL 2026Checking a case on the official court website vs tracking it — an honest comparison
The official district court website is free, official, and answers when you ask. A tracker answers before you ask. Here is the real difference, cost by cost — and when the portal alone is genuinely enough.
- 24 JUL 2026The evening in the digests
Legal research has a fixed cost — hours between the question and the first useful judgment. What changes when a grounded AI brief does the digest work, and what honestly stays yours.
- 24 JUL 2026The walk-in file
A new client sits down in fifteen minutes with a case you have never seen. How Position, Summary and Strategy turn a strange file into a briefing — and what each layer honestly costs.
- 24 JUL 2026What a case-tracking tool must do — a checklist for lawyers
Seven things any case-tracking tool for Indian courts has to get right — coverage, reminders, honesty about the registry, and price. Use it to judge any tool, including ours.