Saya & Associates
When it is already a fight, clarity is leverage.
Civil cases in Delhi run through the district courts, the High Court and the tribunals, and most of them are decided by what is filed at the start: the plaint, the documents behind it, the interim application, the limitation date. The practice prepares each matter as if it will go to trial, and negotiates from that position.
Suits, appeals and arbitrations, for people and for businesses.
Civil suits
Suits for recovery of money, declaration, injunction, possession and specific performance before the district courts of Delhi and the High Court — pleadings, evidence and argument.
Interim relief
Temporary injunctions, attachment before judgment, appointment of receivers and deposit orders — obtained and resisted — where the interim order often decides the case.
Consumer & cheque matters
Complaints before the District, State and National Consumer Commissions, and cheque dishonour cases under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, for complainants and for the accused.
Appeals, execution & writs
First and second appeals, revisions, execution of decrees, and writ petitions under Articles 226 and 227 against government and statutory action.
Arbitration
Domestic arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — appointment under section 11, interim measures under sections 9 and 17, challenges to awards under section 34 and appeals under section 37.
Notices & settlement
Legal notices and replies, mediation and Lok Adalat settlement, and a plain assessment of whether a claim is worth bringing at all.
Build the file for trial. Settle from strength.
Civil courts decide on the record. A plaint without the documents behind it, an injunction application filed late, a limitation date missed by a week — these decide more cases than argument does. Before anything is filed, you get in writing the claims and defences available, the limitation position, the realistic timeline and the cost.
Most civil disputes settle, and many should. A settlement negotiated from a properly prepared case, or reached through mediation or the Lok Adalat, is a different settlement from one accepted because the other side outlasted you.
A written assessment exists before the first filing.
Assess
Documents and facts reviewed; the cause of action, the right court and limitation mapped; a written view before any step is taken.
File
Notice, plaint or reply, and the interim application, prepared with the documents that will have to prove them.
Pursue
Evidence, cross-examination and argument through to decree, appeal or execution — with settlement tested at each stage, not by exhaustion.