Your case runs in Chandigarh. You watch it from home.

For the large majority of dates, no — your advocate appears under the vakalatnama and Power of Attorney, and we apply at the outset to dispense with your personal presence. The realistic exception is your own evidence, because a Power of Attorney holder cannot depose to facts within your personal knowledge. Where that arises we first seek permission for examination by video conferencing, and if the court insists on presence we consolidate it into one planned visit.

Through a client portal, not through phone calls you have to chase. Your matter, its next date, the orders passed and the documents filed are all visible to you, and we record what happened after each effective hearing. That is the specific failure NRI clients describe most often about previous counsel, and the platform exists to remove it.

Manageable, because we plan around it. Consultations are scheduled for your evening — which is the Indian morning for Canada and the US East Coast, and the Indian afternoon for the UK. Written updates land in your inbox regardless of the hour, so nothing depends on catching us live.

Yes. We take the file on a no-objection basis, obtain the record, and give you a written assessment of where the matter actually stands before you commit to anything further. If the previous approach was sound we say so; a change of counsel is not automatically in your interest and we will tell you if it is not.

Fees are agreed in writing before we begin, with the scope and the stages set out, and can be paid from overseas. You get an engagement letter rather than a running verbal arrangement, which matters more when you are not in the country to ask what a bill was for.