Overview: Judicial Services Examination is one of the highly competitive exams, as lakhs of students appear for the state-level exams every year.

For Clearing Judiciary exams it is important that you know what topics you should focus on during your preparation. The syllabus for Judiciary is very vast hence you should note the pointers mentioned in this blog so that you know the important areas to focus on.

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Important Topics IPC for Judiciary 2024:

• General Explanations
• General Exceptions
• Abetment
• Criminal Conspiracy
• Offences against the state
• False Evidence and Offence against Public Justice
• Offences affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience, Decency and Morals
• Offences relating to religion
• Offences affecting the Human Body.
• Offences Against Property
• Criminal Breach of Contracts of Service
• Offences relating to Documents and Property Marks
• Cruelty by Husband or Relatives of Husband
• Defamation
• Criminal intimidation, Insult and Annoyance
• Attempts to Commit Offences

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Important Topics Constitution of India for Judiciary 2024:

• Union & Its Territory
• Citizenship
• Fundamental Rights
• Directive Principles
• Fundamental Duties
• The Unions, States and Union Territories
• Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits
• Emergency Provisions
• Panchayats
• Tribunals
• Emergency
• Amendment of Constitution
• Official Language

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Important Topics CPC for Judiciary 2024:

• Pecuniary Jurisdiction in CPC
• Res-judicata
• Foreign judgments
• Execution [Section 36-74]
•  Suits in General [Section 09-35B] 
• Incidental Proceedings [Section 75-78]
• Suits in Particular Cases
• Special Proceedings [Section 89-91]
•  Appeals [Section 96-112]
• Reference, Review and Revision [Section 113-115]
• Rules [Section 122- 123]
•  Application for Restitution

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Orders in CPC

• Order I - Parties to Suits.
• Order II - Frame of Suits.
• Order IV – Institution of Suits
• Order V – Issue and Service of Summons
• Order VI – Pleadings Generally
• Order VII – Plaint
• Order VIII – Written Statement, Set-off and Counter Claim.
• Order IX - Appearance of Parties and Consequence of Non-Appearance.
• Order X – Examination of Parties by the Court
• Order XI – Discovery and Inspection
• Order XIV - Settlement of Issues and determination of Suit on Issues of Law or on Issues agreed upon
• Order XV - Disposal of the Suit at the First Hearing.
• Order XVII – Adjournments
• Order XX – Judgment and Decree (20)
• Order XXA – Costs
• Order XXI – Execution of Decrees and Orders (cover only these parts)

1. Payment under Decree (Rule 01-02)

2. Courts executing Decrees (Rule 03-09)

3. Stay of Execution (Rule 26-29)

4. Mode of Execution (Rule 30-36)

5. Arrest and Detention in the Civil Prison (Rule 37-40).

6. Attachment of Property (Rule 41-57)

• Order XXII – Death, Marriage and Insolvency of Parties.
• Order XXIII – Withdrawal and Adjustment of Suits
• Order XXVI – Commissions
• Order XXXII - Suits by or Against Minors and Persons of Unsound Mind.
• Order XXXIII – Suits by Indigent Persons
• Order XXXV – Interpleader
• Order XXXIX - Temporary Injunctions and Interlocutory Orders
• Order XLI - Appeals from Original Decrees
• Order XLII – Appeals from Appellate Decree
• Order XLIII – Appeals from Orders.
• Order XLV – Appeals to the Supreme Court.
• Order XLVI – Reference
• Order XLVII – Review

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Important Topics Contracts Act for Judiciary 2024:

• Proposal
• Promise, Promisor and Promisee
• Consideration
• Void Agreement
• Contract
• Revocation of proposals and acceptance
• Consent 
• Coercion
• Undue influence
• Fraud and Misrepresentation
• Agent and Principal
•  Agreement in restraint of marriage, void
• Agreement in restraint of trade, void
• Agreements in restraint of legal proceedings, void
• Agreements void for uncertainty
• Agreements by way of wager, void
• Agreement to do impossible act
• Finder of goods
• Termination of the agency
• Compensation for breach of contract

Important Topics Specific Relief Act for Judiciary 2024:

• Types of Specific Reliefs
• Specific Performance of Contracts
• Rectification of Instruments
• Rescission of Contracts
• Cancellation of Instruments
• Declaratory Decrees
• Injunctions

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Important Topics Law of Limitation, 1963 for Judiciary 2024:

• Effect of Expiry of Limitation (Section 3)
• Conditions and Limitations When Relief Cannot be Granted
• Extension of Limitation (Section 5)
• Legal Disability (Section 6)
• Computation of Limitation
• Acquisition of Ownership by Possession
• Period of Limitation

Subjects for Judiciary Exams 2024

Before starting your preparation for Judiciary Exams, make sure to divide the subjects into the following two categories:

Most important subjects: The subjects which are typical for almost all state-level judiciary exams.

Important subjects: Few subjects hold much importance in a few state-level civil judge exams, whereas a few topics hold less importance as per their weightage in the exam.

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Conclusion:

Preparing for these subjects will give you an edge over other students preparing for the civil judge exam.

If you are preparing for the specific state-level exam, there will be questions based on local laws in the Judiciary Exam. Therefore, focusing on the local laws of the particular state you are applying for will help you score good marks in the exam.

Along with law subjects, another essential section in the Judicial Services Exam is General Knowledge. Most of you might neglect the GK section, thinking that the syllabus is vast.

However, this section plays a vital role in qualifying for the state-level judicial services exams like Up Judiciary, Bihar Judiciary etc.

Judgement Writing is considered to be the backbone of the Judicial Services Exam. In any Judiciary Mains examination, Judgement writing is a separate section that holds equal importance as other sections. 

Practice regular judgement writing questions from the previous year's papers.