Lahore High Court
The High Court for Punjab, sitting at Lahore with benches at Rawalpindi, Multan and Bahawalpur.
The forum
The Lahore High Court has jurisdiction across Punjab. Its principal seat is Lahore, and it has benches at Rawalpindi, Multan and Bahawalpur, each hearing matters from the districts around it.
Where it sits
The principal seat is Lahore. It also sits at Rawalpindi, Multan and Bahawalpur. A date given at one is not a date at another, which is why the bench belongs in the record with the date.
What a firm has to track
This is the court where a diary earns its keep, because a firm with work across Punjab has matters listed in four places at once. The bench is part of the record, not an afterthought: "listed on the 14th" means nothing until it says whether that is Lahore or Multan, and the person who has to be there is a different person.
The date the court gives is a fact. Whoever is standing there records it in CaseMate before they leave the building, and the office acknowledges it — it does not wait to be approved.
The firm decides who goes to the next hearing, against the hearing itself. A matter at a distant bench is a travel arrangement, not a line in a list.
Every previous date, its outcome and the note taken at the time — so a partner can be answered without opening the file.
A hearing in the past with nothing recorded against it is the one thing a diary must never hide. CaseMate lists them separately.
Start with today's list.
Set your firm up in a couple of minutes, enter the cases you are running this week, and let your associates report from court.