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Law Firms in Chandigarh: what the practice actually looks like

Chandigarh is a bar town: the Punjab and Haryana High Court serves two states and the Union Territory from here, and a large share of the city's advocates practise almost exclusively before it. Service litigation is the signature work — promotions, seniority, pension and departmental proceedings for employees of two state governments, their universities and their boards — supported by the Central Administrative Tribunal bench for central employees. Criminal appeals and revisions arrive from across Punjab and Haryana, including a heavy narcotics docket from the border districts. Land acquisition and rural land ceiling matters travel up from both states. NCLT Chandigarh covers insolvency for the region. The UT district courts at Sector 43 handle local civil and criminal matters, including rent litigation peculiar to a city where nearly all property was originally leasehold. Matrimonial appeals from both states are also concentrated here.

Chandigarh functions as one economy with Mohali and Panchkula. The Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park has drawn IT and BPO operations, Sector 17 and the surrounding sectors carry the professional and retail trade, and Mohali adds pharma, electronics and a growing startup base. As the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, the city also runs on government, legal and administrative services.

Chandigarh has one of the highest per-capita incomes among Indian union territories and an economy dominated by services rather than manufacturing. Its planned tri-city region with Mohali and Panchkula concentrates administration for two states plus a sizeable education and healthcare sector.

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