Courts in Ghaziabad — a district cut three times, and why your address does not choose your court

The court itself — Rajnagar, and where it began

The district court for Ghaziabad is at Rajnagar, next to the collectorate. That is where you go for a civil suit, a criminal trial in the sessions or magistrate courts, a matrimonial petition, a bail application, an execution matter, and most of what people mean when they say they have a case.

It has not always been there. The judgeship was created on 14 November 1976, the day the district itself was made, by a notification numbered 7022/VII-A.N.358/76 dated the previous day. It was bifurcated from the Meerut judgeship, its first District Judge was Shri Inder Pal Singh, and the courts first sat at the campus at Model Town, Gandhinagar. The original sanctioned strength was thirteen posts, and the detail in that list is worth holding on to: it included munsifs at both Ghaziabad and Hapur. Hapur’s courts were part of this judgeship from the first day, which becomes important further down this page.

There is also a Gram Nyayalaya at Modinagar. We mention it because people search for an “outlying court” at Modinagar and find nothing official; the body that sits there is a Gram Nyayalaya, and it is not the same thing as a branch of the district court.

What we are not going to give you is a count of courts or judges. We could not find a current official figure, and a number that was true three years ago is worse than no number, because somebody will plan around it.

The room you want is on the cause list for your date. Ask for the building and the court number together — either one without the other leaves you walking around a campus asking strangers.

A district cut three times

Most districts in this country sit still. Ghaziabad has been drawn and redrawn within living memory, and every time it happened, land changed districts without moving an inch.

• 14 November 1976 — Ghaziabad becomes a district Until then it was a tehsil of Meerut. The judgeship was created the same day, carved out of Meerut’s.
• 6 September 1997 — Gautam Buddh Nagar is created Partly out of Ghaziabad, partly out of Bulandshahr. The Dadri side left Ghaziabad.
• Late September 2011 — Hapur is created Three tehsils left: Hapur, Dhaulana and Garhmukteshwar. It was first named Panchsheel Nagar and renamed Hapur on 23 July 2012.

Three events, thirty-five years apart at the ends. The consequence for an ordinary family is not historical at all: a plot bought in 1993 in a village that was then in Ghaziabad may today be in Gautam Buddh Nagar or in Hapur, and the deed in the almirah will still say Ghaziabad because that is what was true when it was written.

1997 — what went to Gautam Buddh Nagar

Gautam Buddh Nagar was created on 6 September 1997 by a government order numbered 1249/97/82/97, out of portions of Ghaziabad and of Bulandshahr.

From the Ghaziabad side, the official description is given in blocks: Dadri and Bisrakh. Ghaziabad’s own district site puts the same thing in tehsil terms, saying that Dadri tehsil of Ghaziabad district was included in the new district. From the Bulandshahr side came the Dankaur and Jewar blocks and a number of villages.

Noida and Greater Noida sit in the district that was created in 1997, and what applies to land there is a separate subject with its own page. We will come back to why it is separate, under Why this is not the Noida position.

2011 — Hapur, and a date two governments disagree about

Hapur became a district in late September 2011, taking the tehsils of Hapur, Dhaulana and Garhmukteshwar with it. It was originally named Panchsheel Nagar, and renamed Hapur on 23 July 2012 — which is its own small trap, because documents and orders from that ten-month window may use the earlier name.

On the exact day, two government sites do not agree. The Hapur district site gives 28 September 2011. The Ghaziabad district site gives 27 September 2011. We have not been able to reconcile them, and we would rather hand you both dates than pick one and sound certain.

What Ghaziabad is today

Three tehsils: Loni, Ghaziabad and Modinagar. That is the revenue division, and it is the one that matters when somebody asks which tehsildar your matter sits with.

Muradnagar is where this goes wrong often enough to be worth a line. Muradnagar is a municipal council and a development block; it is not a tehsil. Being sent to a tehsil office that does not exist is a wasted morning, and it happens because the name appears in lists of other kinds.

Alongside the tehsils sit the municipal bodies — a municipal corporation at Ghaziabad and municipal councils including Muradnagar, Modinagar, Loni and Khoda Mankanpur — and the development blocks. These are three different ways of dividing the same ground, for three different purposes, and a property can be described by all three without any of them contradicting the others.

The courts followed, three and a half years later

Making a district and making a judgeship are two separate acts of government, and in Hapur’s case they were not close together.

The State Government order creating the Hapur judgeship is numbered 957/VII-Nyay-2-2012-202G/2011 and is dated 13 August 2012 — about eleven months after the district. The Allahabad High Court then gave effect to it by a set of notifications dated 6 February 2015, posting a District and Sessions Judge, a Chief Judicial Magistrate and civil judges to Hapur. Between the district and the working judgeship there is therefore a gap of roughly three and a half years.

The High Court’s own words describe what happened to the courts:

Read it slowly, because every word is doing work. Courts were already functioning at Hapur and Garhmukteshwar. They were functioning as part of the Ghaziabad judgeship — which is exactly what the 1976 sanction told us, with its munsifs at both places. What happened in 2015 was that those courts stopped being Ghaziabad’s and became Hapur’s.

“Re-designated” is not “transferred”

This distinction is the practical heart of the last two sections, and it answers a question people ask us in a worried voice: was my grandfather’s case moved somewhere?

We did not find a separate order transferring pending cases from Ghaziabad to Hapur, and we are not going to tell you there was one in order to sound complete. What the notifications say is that courts which were sitting at those places were re-designated. The natural reading is that the files stayed where they were and the label on the court changed around them.

If this matters to a case of yours — an old execution, a partition suit nobody closed, a title suit a grandparent filed — the answer is not on a website. It is in the record room, and it is found by producing the case number and the year. That is a half-day of somebody’s time, and it is the only reliable way to do it.

Your deed says District Ghaziabad. Now what?

Here is the situation we meet most often on this side of the river.

A family has a registered sale deed from 1994, or a will, or a set of receipts and an agreement. Somewhere on it the words “Zila Ghaziabad” appear. The father who bought the land has died, or a sale has been agreed, or a bank has asked for the chain of title. Somebody goes to the Ghaziabad sub-registrar’s office with the deed, waits, and is told the record is not there.

Nothing has gone missing. The land is in what is now Hapur, or in what is now Gautam Buddh Nagar, and when the district was redrawn the registration record went with the ground, not with the word printed on the paper.

Which office holds the record — Section 28

The rule is not a local practice that someone can be argued out of. It is in the Registration Act, 1908, and it has said the same thing since before any of these districts existed.

The property decides the office. Not where the seller lives, not where the buyer lives, not where the deed was typed, and not what the deed calls the district. If the sub-district a piece of land falls in is reorganised into a new district, the office for that sub-district is where its documents are presented and where its older entries are kept.

Documents that do not relate to immovable property follow a different section. Under Section 29(1) they may be presented either where the document was executed, or in the office of any other Sub-Registrar under the State Government at which everybody executing and claiming under the document wants it registered. That is a far more flexible rule, and it is why a general power of attorney and a sale deed can end up registered in different districts entirely.

Book No. 1, and the certified copy

Registering offices keep several books. A sale deed and other documents relating to immovable property go into Book No. 1. Knowing the book number is not trivia; it is what lets you ask a precise question instead of a vague one.

The section that lets you get a copy is Section 57, and it is worth reading because of what it says about the status of what you get:

That last line is the whole reason for the exercise. A certified copy, signed and sealed, is admissible to prove the contents of the original. A photocopy of a photocopy is not. Families who have lost the original deed often do not realise that the position is recoverable; it usually is, and this is how.

One clarification, because it gets quoted wrongly. Section 51 of the same Act is not about copies at all — it is the provision about which register books an office keeps. If somebody cites Section 51 at you for a certified copy, they have the wrong section, though they may be right about everything else.

What to actually ask for at the counter

A request that names the thing you want gets dealt with. A request that describes a problem gets advice. These are the things worth naming:

If you are doing this for a sale or a loan, ask early. A certified copy obtained in a week while there is still time is an ordinary errand; the same copy sought the day before a registry appointment is a crisis, and the counter does not work faster because yours is urgent.

Your address does not choose your court

Now the second half, and the one that costs people the most time.

Ghaziabad sits against Delhi. People live in Vaishali or Indirapuram and work in Connaught Place, bank in Noida, buy a car in Delhi and are hit by one on the border. When something goes wrong, the first instinct is reasonable and usually wrong: I live here, so I will file here.

Where a case is filed is settled by statute, subject by subject, and the statutes do not all use the same test. For some it is the defendant. For some it is where the thing happened. For a cheque it is a bank branch. For a consumer, since 2019, it can be your own town. Learning which test applies to your matter is twenty minutes of work and it decides where you will be travelling for the next few years.

Section 20 — the ordinary rule

For most civil suits that are not about land, this is the provision:

Three things follow from that, and they are not obvious to somebody reading it for the first time.

The plaintiff’s residence is not in the list. You being in Ghaziabad does not by itself bring your suit to Ghaziabad. What can bring it here is the defendant being here, or part of the cause of action having arisen here — and “wholly or in part” is doing a lot of work in that clause, because very often part of what happened did happen where you are.

The Explanation about corporations is the one that helps ordinary people most. If a company has a subordinate office where your cause of action arose, it is deemed to carry on business there. That is frequently the difference between suing a company in your own district and travelling to its head office in another state.

Section 16 — when it is about land

Suits about immovable property do not follow Section 20. Section 16 requires them to be instituted where the property is — recovery of immovable property, partition, foreclosure, sale or redemption of a mortgage, determination of any other right to or interest in immovable property, compensation for a wrong to it, and recovery of movable property under distraint or attachment.

There is a proviso, and it is the one place where a land matter can move:

The condition in the middle is the whole proviso: the relief must be one that can be entirely obtained through the defendant’s personal obedience. A direction to a person to do something can be. A decree that has to operate on the land itself cannot. Whether your relief falls on one side or the other is a question for somebody who has read your plaint, and it is a question worth asking before filing rather than after an objection is taken.

Land lying in two districts

This happens here more than people expect, because district lines were redrawn through settled agricultural land rather than around it.

Section 17 deals with it directly: where a suit is to obtain relief respecting, or compensation for wrong to, immovable property situate within the jurisdiction of different courts, the suit may be instituted in any court within whose local limits any portion of the property is situate.

So a holding straddling the Ghaziabad–Hapur line does not have to be split into two suits. One suit, in either district, provided a portion lies there. That is a genuinely useful provision and it is not widely known outside the profession.

Section 19 — a wrong to you or your things

For a wrong done to a person or to movable property, Section 19 gives the plaintiff an option: if the wrong was done within the jurisdiction of one court and the defendant resides or carries on business or personally works for gain within the jurisdiction of another, the suit may be instituted at the plaintiff’s option in either.

An assault, damage to goods, a vehicle wrecked — this is the section that lets you choose between the place it happened and the place the other side can be found. For a Ghaziabad resident whose trouble occurred across the border, that choice is often the difference between a case that can be attended and one that cannot.

A bounced cheque goes to the bank, not the man

Cheque matters used to be filed almost anywhere, and then the law was changed to stop that. Since the amendment of 2015 the rule is tied to a bank branch:

In the ordinary case — you were given a cheque and you put it into your own account — the court is the one where your branch is. If your account is in Ghaziabad, that is where the complaint goes, even if the person who wrote the cheque has never been to the district.

There is a companion provision that saves a great deal of travel. Once one complaint by you against a particular drawer is pending, all your later complaints under Section 138 against that same drawer are filed before the same court, whether or not those later cheques would have fallen within its jurisdiction. Somebody who has been given six cheques by the same person and seen all six bounce is dealing with one court, not six.

Everything else about a cheque matter — the notice, the fifteen days, the one month, what the complaint must contain — is set out on our Section 138 page, and we have not rewritten it here.

A consumer files where he lives

This is the change most worth knowing about, and a great many people still do not know it.

Under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, a complaint may be instituted in a District Commission within whose jurisdiction the opposite party resides or carries on business or has a branch office; or any one of several opposite parties, with the Commission’s permission; or where the cause of action arose, wholly or in part; or where the complainant resides or personally works for gain.

That last clause did not exist in the old Act. It means a resident of Ghaziabad who bought something in Delhi, or online from a company based anywhere, can ordinarily complain in their own district. For somebody who has already lost money and cannot afford to lose working days as well, it changes the arithmetic of whether a complaint is worth bringing at all.

We are not printing the value limits for the District, State and National Commissions. Those figures were revised by rules made after the Act and we have not verified the current ones, and a wrong limit sends a complaint to the wrong forum. The process itself is on our consumer court page.

A motor claim — the claimant’s choice

Section 166(2) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 is written as an option for the person claiming:

Accidents on this stretch of road very often happen on one side of a district or state line while the injured person lives on the other. The section anticipates exactly that, and gives the choice to the person who was hurt rather than to the insurer. If you are in Ghaziabad and the accident was in Delhi or in Gautam Buddh Nagar, the tribunal here is ordinarily open to you.

How a claim is built, what evidence carries weight and what the tribunal is actually deciding is on our motor accident claim page.

Matrimonial petitions

Section 19 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 lists the courts to which a petition may be presented: where the marriage was solemnised; where the respondent resides at the time of presentation; where the parties last resided together; and, where the respondent is outside the territories to which the Act extends or has not been heard of for seven years, where the petitioner is residing.

There is a further clause, added later, allowing a wife who is the petitioner to present it where she is residing on the date of presentation. We should be straight about our source for it: we found that clause in two independent reproductions of the section but not in the official copy we were able to open. It is well established in practice and it matters a great deal to women who have returned to their parents’ home, so we are telling you it exists — and telling you to have it confirmed from a current bare Act before you rely on it.

An FIR can be recorded anywhere

This one is not about choosing a convenient forum. It is about not losing a day.

Under Section 173(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, information relating to a cognizable offence may be given irrespective of the area where the offence is committed. The station that records it sends it on to the station with jurisdiction. That is the provision people mean when they say “Zero FIR”.

For somebody who lives in Ghaziabad and was robbed in Delhi, or whose daughter was harassed in Noida, the practical meaning is simple: report it where you are, now. Going home and finding the correct station the next morning is how CCTV gets overwritten and witnesses disperse. The full position, including what to do when a station declines, is on our FIR registration page.

All of it in one table

Read down that middle column and you will notice how rarely the answer is “where you live”, and how often it is something you can establish in an afternoon from your own papers.

If it is already in the wrong court

Sometimes the discovery comes late — a case was filed in Ghaziabad that should have gone to Hapur, or the other way round, and two years have passed.

The provision for moving it is Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, under which the High Court or the District Court may at any stage transfer a suit, appeal or other proceeding pending before it to a court subordinate to it, or withdraw a proceeding from a subordinate court.

The words “subordinate to it” decide who you go to. Two district courts are not subordinate to one another, so a transfer between Ghaziabad and Hapur, or between Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar, is a matter for the Allahabad High Court. A transfer from one court to another inside the Ghaziabad judgeship is a District Judge matter under the same section.

There is a separate route under Sections 22 and 23 where a suit could have been filed in more than one court and the defendant wants it moved: the application has to be made at the earliest possible opportunity, and in any case where issues are settled, at or before that settlement. Leaving it late is fatal to that route.

Which High Court, and why Prayagraj

Appeals and writs from Ghaziabad go to the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, at its principal seat in Prayagraj.

The Lucknow Bench is not an alternative you can simply choose. Its sitting is confined to cases arising in the Oudh area, under the amalgamation order of 1948. Ghaziabad is in western Uttar Pradesh, which is not Oudh, so matters go to Prayagraj.

We will be honest about the state of the source material, because somebody will check. That 1948 order names no districts at all — it speaks of such areas in Oudh as the Chief Justice may direct. We looked for an official enumerated list of the districts falling to the Lucknow Bench and did not find one. So what we are giving you is the reasoning rather than a list, and if part of your cause of action lies in Oudh the question is worth putting to an advocate rather than settled from a page.

There has been a long-running demand for a High Court bench in western Uttar Pradesh, and in August 2025, according to news reports, lawyers across twenty-two western districts stopped work over it. We put it that way deliberately: we could not find a High Court or Bar Council notification, so we are reporting the reports. None of it changes where your appeal goes today.

GDA, and the Act behind it

The Ghaziabad Development Authority was constituted by a State notification of 9 March 1977, under the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973. The district was made in November 1976 and the authority followed four months later, which gives a fair sense of how quickly this area was expected to build.

The Act works in two steps. First the State declares an area to be a development area:

Everything GDA does — the master plan, layout sanction, building permission, its own allotments — runs off that structure. When somebody tells you a colony is “GDA approved”, the sensible follow-up is which of those things was approved, and when, and whether it covers the particular plot you are being shown.

Why this is not the Noida position

People move between these two districts constantly and carry assumptions across with them. The assumptions do not travel, because the two authorities are constituted under different statutes.

If what you are actually dealing with is a Noida or Greater Noida property — the Authority’s permission to transfer, the registry question, dues sitting against a builder — that is a whole subject and it is on the Noida page. We are not thinning it across two pages to make this one look complete.

The Parishad land

GDA is not the only public body that has laid out housing in this district. The Uttar Pradesh Avas Evam Vikas Parishad, constituted under the Uttar Pradesh Avas Evam Vikas Parishad Adhiniyam, 1965, has its own schemes, and its land sits alongside GDA land and private land in the same city.

Two practical consequences. The transfer and record process for a Parishad property is the Parishad’s, not GDA’s and not the municipal corporation’s — so being sent between offices is common and is usually a sign that nobody has yet established which body holds the file. And the correct name of the statute is the one above; it is often cited as a “Housing and Development Board Act”, which will not help you find it.

We are not listing which schemes in Ghaziabad are Parishad schemes. We could not confirm that from the Parishad’s own material, and a list of colony names is exactly the sort of thing that is half right and sends somebody to the wrong counter.

Mutation — whose job it is

For revenue land, mutation is governed by the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006, whose main provisions came into force on 11 February 2016. The section that matters when land has been sold is Section 34:

Read the subject of that sentence. The duty is on the person who obtained possession — the buyer. Not on the seller, and not, so far as we could find, on the Sub-Registrar.

We looked specifically for a provision requiring the registering officer to forward a registered deed to the Tahsildar so that mutation follows automatically. We did not find one. A great many people believe it works that way, and it is why a sale deed can sit properly registered for eight years while the khatauni still carries the name of a man who sold the land and has since died.

What happens after the report is in Section 35. The Tahsildar issues a proclamation and makes such enquiry as appears necessary. If nobody disputes it, the record of rights is directed to be amended. If somebody does, the dispute is decided. An appeal lies to the Sub-Divisional Officer within thirty days.

Succession is reported separately, under Section 33, to the Revenue Inspector of the circle where the land is. Mixing up the two sections sends a family to the wrong officer with the right papers.

And why that does not cover your flat

Everything in the last section is about revenue land. It is not the route for a flat, and treating it as though it were costs months.

A flat allotted by a development authority is transferred and recorded through that authority. A house in a municipal area is recorded with the municipal corporation. A Parishad property goes through the Parishad. None of those is a Tahsildar matter and none of them is Section 34.

So the first question for any property in this district is not what to file. It is which body holds the record. Establish that, and the rest of the process names itself. Skip it, and you will be told at three counters that you are in the wrong place, without anybody being able to tell you the right one.

Stamp, and the circle rate

Stamp duty is a State subject and the rate is the same across Uttar Pradesh. There is no special Ghaziabad rate and anybody telling you there is has something else in mind.

What is local is the circle rate — the minimum valuation on which duty is calculated — which is fixed district-wise and tehsil-wise by the District Magistrate. Two comparable flats, one here and one in another district, can attract quite different amounts while the rate itself has not moved at all. That is the mechanism, and it is worth understanding because it explains a figure that otherwise looks arbitrary.

We do not print the percentage, any concession, or any circle rate on this page. We could not verify the current figures from the State’s own source, those numbers are revised, and somebody arriving at the counter short by a few thousand rupees because of a stale figure on a website has been badly served. Ask at the registry, or ask us and we will find out for your tehsil before you go.

What people here are actually holding

When families bring us a bag of papers, this is roughly what is in it, and what each one is worth on the question of where.

Five things to establish before you file anything

1. Which district the land is in today. On the current map, not on the deed. Everything else follows from this and it takes minutes.
2. Which body holds the record. Tehsil, development authority, Parishad or municipal corporation. One of them, and only one, has your file.
3. What the statute says for your kind of matter. The defendant, the property, the bank branch, the accident, your own residence — they are different tests and the table above sets them out.
4. Whether anything is already pending. A complaint by you against the same drawer, an earlier suit, a revenue proceeding nobody told you about. Any of them can decide the forum for what you are about to file.
5. Whether you can actually attend. A court you can reach on a working morning is worth a great deal more than a technically available one you will miss dates at.

The first day at the court

Reach earlier than you think necessary. Parking near the collectorate campus goes quickly and the gate you want may not be the one you arrive at.

Carry your own file — your copy, not the only copy — and a sheet with the case number, the year, the court number from the cause list and your advocate’s number. Keep a certified copy of anything important somewhere other than the bag you are carrying.

Expect to wait. Expect the matter to take four minutes when it is called. Both are normal, and neither tells you anything about how your case is going.

Before you leave, find out what was actually recorded and what the next date is. Not what you think happened, and not what somebody in the corridor said — what the order sheet says. Write it down the same day, with the date. Over three years that running note becomes the only continuous account of your own case, and more than once it has been the thing that answered an allegation of delay.

When the court is not sitting

Courts do not sit on some days, for reasons ranging from ordinary vacation to local disturbance. It is worth knowing how to handle it rather than being surprised by it.

Ask your advocate to confirm from the record what was ordered and what the next date is. Memory is not reliable about this and nor is a message in a group. If your matter was simply not reached, that is a different thing from an adjournment, and the order sheet distinguishes them even when nobody in the corridor does.

Keep your own dated note of each date and whether it was effective. If somebody later suggests that your side caused the delay, that note is the only record you will have that says otherwise.

Your advocate, and where they are enrolled

An advocate enrolled on any State roll may practise throughout India. Being on the Delhi roll does not stop somebody appearing in Ghaziabad, and being on the Uttar Pradesh roll does not stop them appearing in Delhi. We have set this out properly, with the section, on our Gurugram page, and there is no sense in writing it twice.

Most people still engage somebody who practises locally, and the reasons are practical rather than legal: short hearings, frequent dates, familiarity with the staff and the building. That is a sensible choice. It is not a rule, and anybody who tells you it is a rule should be asked which provision they are relying on.

What we do, and what we are not

We are a documentation company. The work we actually do with our own hands is paperwork: finding which office holds a record, obtaining a certified copy, preparing and getting a document registered, putting a mutation application together with what it needs, assembling a chain of title so that a bank or a buyer can read it without coming back with questions. Each of those has a price on its own page and none of it is court work.

Every one of those has its price printed on its own page, and the figure is confirmed on a call before anything starts.

What we do not do is practise law. We do not appear, we do not advise on your case, and we do not take a view on whether you will succeed. Where a matter needs an advocate — and the moment a dispute is real, it does — it goes to the directory, where it reaches everybody at once and the first to accept it telephones you.

If you cannot afford an advocate, that is not the end of the road and it should not stop you asking. Free legal services exist by statute through the legal services authorities, at every level from the taluk committee upward, and eligibility is wider than most people assume — it is not limited to people with no income at all. We can point you at which authority covers your matter. We will not tell you whether you qualify, because we have not seen the criteria applied to you and guessing at it would waste your time rather than save it.

What we will not do

And there is a last one that runs through the whole page. We have told you four separate times that we could not confirm something — the day Hapur was created, whether pending cases were formally moved, the Lucknow Bench district list, the wife’s clause in Section 19. Every one of those gaps could have been closed with a sentence written confidently, and nobody reading would have known the difference. The person who would have found out is the one who acted on it, standing at a counter, holding papers. That is the only test of a page like this that counts for anything.

Five mistakes this district produces

1. Reading the district name on an old deed as the district today. Two reorganisations sit between a nineteen-nineties deed and the present map. The record went with the ground.
2. Assuming you file where you live. Your residence appears in very few of the provisions that decide a forum, and in several of them only if you are the defendant.
3. Waiting for mutation to happen by itself. The Revenue Code puts the duty to report on the person who obtained the land. Nothing starts until somebody files it.
4. Using the revenue route for a flat. Section 34 is about revenue land. An authority flat or a municipal house is recorded elsewhere, and months get lost at the wrong window.
5. Carrying a Noida assumption into Ghaziabad. Different statute, different authority, different land position. Being right about the wrong district is still being wrong.

What we charge

Nothing to ask, and nothing to use the directory. Sending your matter through to the advocates on it costs you nothing, and no money passes between us and them in either direction — which is the reason nobody on that list can pay for a better position on it. Where we do the paperwork ourselves, the price is printed on that document’s own page, we confirm the full figure on a call before anything begins, and you pay once the work is done. Your advocate’s fee is a separate matter, agreed between you and them.

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