Practice area

Service & Employment Law

Conditions of service, promotion, seniority, pension and disciplinary proceedings for public servants and employees of statutory bodies.

What we do

Typical matters

  • Promotion, seniority and reservation in service
  • Departmental enquiries and disciplinary proceedings
  • Dismissal, removal and compulsory retirement
  • Pension, gratuity and retiral benefits
  • Regularisation of contractual and ad hoc service
  • Recruitment and appointment disputes

Service law governs the relationship between an employee and the State or a statutory employer: how a person is recruited, what their conditions of service are, how they are promoted or passed over, how they are disciplined, and what they are owed on retirement. The firm acts for employees in each of these, and appears in the forums where such disputes are decided.

Most matters begin before the Central Administrative Tribunal or the departmental authority and reach the Delhi High Court on writ, and the Supreme Court of India on appeal. We conduct the matter through all of them, so that the record made at the first hearing is the record argued on appeal.

Principal statutes

  • Article 309, 310, 311 and 323-A of the Constitution of India
  • Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985
  • Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965
  • Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021

Speak to us about a matter

A first conference establishes what the dispute is, what the record shows and what remedy is open. Nothing on this page is legal advice.

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