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Echoing the previous sentiments, Key to Indian Practice for CPC. If you are familiar with the basic concepts, maybe try reading some commentary/more detailed book cover to cover. It helps. Most of them are not quite good, tbh. Sarkar's Civil Court Practice & Procedure Manual is relatively small in size (1500-2000 pages), but again, not very high quality (not many high quality books in this area).
For arbitration, you can also refer to Redfern & Hunter. Arbitration principles irrespective of jurisdiction are more-or-less the same. As for the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, read the recent significant judgments — Vidya Drollia, Cox & Kings, Gayatri Balasamy. They anyway discuss the prevailing legal position generally and the historical developments.
Generally to brush up on civil law, you can also read up on the relevant judgments prescribed for the AOR Paper-4 (Leading Cases).
Here is the list of cases: https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2024/01/2024061128.pdf
Here are the cases, categorised: https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/documents/aorexam/22052023_104448.pdf
Based on the categories, I'd say look at Categories V, VI, VIII, XI, XIII.
Here are headnotes of several leading cases, irrespective of the list prescribed above:
Vol. I: https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2025/05/2025052943.pdf
Vol. II: https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2025/05/2025052839.pdf
Vol. III: https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2025/05/2025050838.pdf
Rest, I'd say really depends on what HC you are at. Keep reading up on recent judgments passed by the judges sitting in the relevant roster. If you want general, broad knowledge, you can buy a couple of latest volumes of the court reporter (say, for DHC, DLT - though I strongly dislike reading it for the quality of paper used in comparison to, say, SCC - but SCC doesn't cover HC anyway so moot point).
Hope this helps
Really want to brush up (more like learn from scratch) CPC, arbitration and civil disputes in general.
I have been reading through the book- Arbitration in India (Wolters Kluwer) edited by Mr. Dushyant Dave, Mr. Fali Nariman etc. and it seems like a really good book.
Can anyone point to similar (preferably free) resources that would help me with bot only with my job but also acing any recruitment interviews I might have in the future.
Best of luck and ignore the haters.
and awaiting moderation would mean that they have not yet reached it to moderate?
a lot of comments on that "GOAT of 2026 batch" post show "not been published" what's that about?
He didn’t jump ship — the crew finally realised who drilled the holes.
The founders walked out on P&A when they had to — and trust me, they’d applaud anyone who does the same, even to them.
The only ones taking this personally are the secretarial staff, at most.
Everyone else just calls it what it is — career progression.
Oh, and that red pill I just handed you? Don’t mistake it for an antidote to an S&R problem — it’s just called reality.
You missed the memo… but hey — now you’re welcome.
You’ve wasted enough time here already. Get back to your work.
OVN knows this well. Apart from shunting Gatekeeper and letting a certain King play with the ball for now, OVN will bide his time. If better opportunity comes along esp from South, he will scram
2. Don't keep your valuable stuff while handing over keys to someone. You are responsible for your own stuff.
3. Do you know NLS students have a 3 day window to submit your keys after the trimester ends and then take it back after it begins. If they fail to do it on time, they get hefty fines.
Thus, grow up please.
But this past sem, things have gotten so much worse. Students have been actively calling out faculty and admin for overstepping (HISTORIC number of students weren't allowed to write exams due to attendance shortage btw, I'm sure some of y'all saw that the matter went to the Gujarat HC on an urgent basis- almost 60-70 students per subject). The admin have been literally making up rules that aren't written anywhere and are def not standard practice.
To shut down all these complaints and accusations against the admin and faculty body, the new chief Faculty Warden has just sent out this super aggressive email threatening to BREAK THE LOCKS on hostel rooms if residents haven't submitted their keys. Their excuse? "Asset numbering." That's not something that needs to happen during semester breaks, and let's be so real rn- the admin has never gotten anything done during breaks in the hostels, not even barebones maintenance.
The best part, you ask? Students have already had valuable stuff go missing from their rooms after handing over keys to hostel authorities: trashed rooms, missing cash, stolen items, and guess what...still ZERO accountability from the admin. Anyone who wants maintenance already submits their keys out of their own will.
This is another new and unsurprising low in GNLU's recent history, and feels like another way to make student life harder on campus, that's already seen some of the worst incidents amongst NLUs and law schools in general.
- Rahul Gandhi
- Akhilesh Yadav
- Tejaswi Yadav
- Udaynidhi Stalin
- Prashant Kishore
- Abhishek Banerjee
- Kanhaiya Kumar
- Umar Khalid
- Chandrasekhar Azad Ravan
- Raghav Chaddha
Or are we yet to see this person??!!
(A2 salary of other T1 firms :p)
I am aware of the selection process for both and that air force does not have a separate notification for JAG.
I was of the opinion that Army JAG would be the best one in terms of carrer growth but then I had seen videos of a famous retd. Army JAG Officer and those were like eye-opener for me. Let me know if I am wrong.
Be careful, guys! Maybe lock your account or delete certain tweets?
I'm a Final year student, from a private college(not so popular one), have no internship with top tier firms. have interned with boutique corporate law firms(pursuing cs), that why i have particular interest with corporate domain,
suggest some corporate law firm that offers assessment internship in chennai , would be happy to looking into it.
A much better system IMO.