Professional Biography & Practice Standing
Enrolled with the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana, Advocate Jagdish Lal is the Managing Partner at Urban Rights Legal Consultants. Over three and a half decades of active legal standing, his practice has centered upon six specialized legal domains: Appellate Matters in District & Sessions Courts and High Courts, Bail Matters & Criminal Defence, White Collar Crimes & Economic Offences, Property Matters & Partition Disputes, Section 138 NI Act Cheque Bounce, and Civil Matters & Injunctions.
He has guided hundreds of individual clients, families, business founders, and commercial enterprises through complex High Court appeals (RFA/RSA), corporate financial investigations, ancestral land partition suits, summary debt recovery under Order 37 CPC, and urgent injunction stay battles under Order 39 CPC.
Key Practice Areas & Specializations
1. Appellate Matters (District & Sessions Court & High Court)
Arguing and preparing First Civil Appeals (RFA), Regular Second Appeals (RSA), Civil Revisions (Sec 115 CPC), Criminal Appeals against trial convictions, Criminal Revisions under BNSS, and High Court Quashing Petitions (Sec 528 BNSS) before Punjab & Haryana High Court, Delhi High Court, and Sessions Courts.
2. Bail Matters & Criminal Defence
Strategic advocacy for Anticipatory Bail (Sec 482 BNSS / 438 CrPC) and Regular Bail (Sec 480 & 483 BNSS / 437 & 439 CrPC) before Sessions Courts and High Courts, Default Bail under Sec 187 BNSS, interim protection, and police notice compliance.
3. White Collar Crimes
Strategic defence in corporate financial fraud, economic offences, criminal breach of trust (Sec 316 BNS), cheating (Sec 318 BNS), forgery, cyber financial scams, and pre-arrest investigation notices.
4. Property Matters
End-to-end property dispute litigation: Partition of joint ancestral & commercial properties, declaration of title, boundary disputes, Haryana Rent Act eviction, and Specific Performance of contracts.
5. 138 NI Act Cheque Bounce
Prosecuting and defending Section 138 Negotiable Instruments Act cheque dishonour complaints, drafting statutory demand notices, securing Section 143A interim compensation, and appellate revisions.
6. Civil Matters & Injunctions
Urgent ex-parte and bilateral temporary injunctions under Order 39 Rules 1 & 2 CPC, summary suits for recovery (Order 37 CPC), stay of decree execution (Order 21 CPC), and breach of contract damages.