Important Legal Definitions

The improper and unethical practice adopted by a litigant to select a specific bench, judge, or court perceived to be more lenient or favorable, often by creating artificial jurisdictional grounds or suppressing earlier rejections.

A petitioner whose writ petition is dismissed by one Single Judge withdraws an identical review application and files a fresh writ petition during court vacations before a vacation bench without disclosing the previous dismissal; the bench imposes exemplary costs for forum shopping.