Bhatt & Joshi Associates are regarded as one of the best CAT Lawyers based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat with the team of the top most experienced CAT Lawyers with detailed knowledge of Central Civil Services Rules , with this also serving as Service Lawyers at Appellate level before Gujarat High Court & Supreme Court of India. Our Comprehensive legal team of CAT Lawyers helps the Government Servants in establishing their rights pertaining to their Civil Services. Whenever needed our team of expert CAT lawyers represent the case before the High Court or Supreme Court of India.
The Constitution of India provides for the constitution of Tribunals in Part XIV-A, which was inserted into the constitution through 42nd Amendment Act, 1976, which added Article 323A and 323B for constitution of Administrative Tribunals and Tribunals related to other matters respectively. Article 323A constitutionally empowers the parliament to constitute Administrative Tribunals for the adjudication of disputes with respect to recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to public services and Civil Posts pertaining to the affairs of the Union or of any Corporation owned or controlled by the Government of India. CAT – Central Administrative Tribunals were constituted by an Act of Parliament The Administrative Tribunals Act in 1985. At Bhatt & Joshi Associates, our team of expert and highly qualified Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Lawyers, take up the issues and matters pertaining to the civil services employment of the Central Govt Employees.
Working of CAT
CAT is governed by the principles of natural justice; however not bound by the procedure laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. The Central Administrative Tribunal has the same powers as that of a Civil Court in India under the provisions of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. Any appeal against the orders of a Tribunal is to be preferred before the High Court and not straight away before the Supreme Court. Hon’ble the Apex Court of India, held in the case of Chandra Kumar Case (1997), that the appeal against the orders of a Central Administrative Tribunal may not be made directly in the Supreme Court and a person aggrieved by the order has to firstly approach the concerned High Court. The nature of disputes between a Government Employee and the Central Government may be wide ranging but mostly the matters which are filed before CAT are related to the following issues:
CAT LAWYERS TO HELP SOLVE YOUR ISSUES AND MATTER PERTAINING TO APPOINTMENT AND RECRUITMENT:
- Issues related to Appointment and Recruitment
- interpretation and challenge to the Recruitment rules
- Challenge to the wrongful appointments
- Recruitment authority denying the Appointment
- Matters pertaining to departmental examinations and UPSC
CAT LAWYERS TO HELP SOLVE MATTERS RELATED TO PUNISHMENTS TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES:
- Employment Termination
- Removal of a Government Employee
- Dismissal from services
- Punishment – Minor and Major
- Suspension of a Government Employee
- Charge Sheet issued against a Government Employee
CAT LAWYERS TO HELP SOLVE YOUR MATTERS RELATED TO DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE CAT:
- Issuance of Memo and reply to the charges against an employee
- Issuance of Show Cause Notice and reply to it
- Issuance of Warning letters
- Suspension of a Government Employee
- Departmental Inquiries against a Government Employee
- Issuance of Memos
- Prevention of corruption matters or PCA matters
- Matters pertaining to CVC Vigilance
- Matters pertaining to CBI Investigation and Corruption & Graft charges
CAT LAWYERS TO HELP SOLVE YOUR PROMOTION ISSUES:
- Promotion denied to an employee
- Not being considered in a DPC – Departmental Promotion Committee
- All matters pertaining to DPC – Departmental Promotion Committee
- Matters pertaining to seniority
- Work charge matters
- Officiating promotion matters
- ACR – Annual Confidential Review matters
- APAR – Annual Performance Appraisal Report matters
- Adverse remarks in Annual Confidential Review
CAT LAWYERS TO HELP SOLVE YOUR MATTERS PERTAINING TO TRANSFER AND POSTING OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES BEFORE CAT:
- Challenge to the transfer order before CAT
- Central Government Employees being Wrongfully transferred
- Central government employees on conditional transfer orders of
- Challenge to Punitive transfer order
- Illegal transfer of Central Government Employees
CAT LAWYERS TO HELP SOLVE YOUR POST RETIREMENT ISSUES:
- VRS – Voluntary Retirement
- Pay and Pension Fixation
- Withholding the benefits post retirement
- Issues pertaining to Premature retirement
YOUR CAT LAWYERS SHOULD HAVE GRIP ON THE FOLLOWING ACTS AND RULES
| SL. No. | Title | Details |
| 1 | Manual of Office Procedure | Link |
| 2 | Record Retention Schedule as Prescribed by D/o Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances | Link |
| 3 | General Financial Rules, 2005 | Link |
| 4 | All India Services (AIS) Manuals | Link |
| 5 | The AIS (Performance Appraisal Report) Rules, 2007 | Link |
| 6 | Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 | Link |
| 7 | Central Civil Services (Temporary Service) Rules, 1965 | Link |
| 8 | Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 | Link |
| 9 | Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 (Notification dated 03/05/1988) | Download (395.38 KB) |
| 10 | Central Civil Services (Leave Rules) | Download (132.22 KB) |
| 11 | Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964 – Bringing Out A Revised/Updated Edition | Link |
| 12 | Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964 (Updated) | Download (678.77 KB) |
| 13 | Central Civil Services (Redeployment of Surplus Staff) Rules, 1990 | Download (1.16 MB) |
| 14 | Central Civil Services (Redeployment of Surplus Staff) Rules, 2002 | Download (94.25 KB) |
| 15 | IAS Promotion Guide Lines | Download (93.53 KB) |
| 16 | IPS (Appointment by Limited Competetive Examination) Regulations, 2011 | Download (532.72 KB) |
| 17 | IPS (Probation) Amendment Rules, 2011 | Download (269.7 KB) |
| 18 | IAS (Pay) 2nd Amendment Rules, 2008 | Download (907.29 KB) |
| 19 | IFS (Pay) 2nd Amendment Rules, 2008 | Download (940.46 KB) |
| 20 | IPS (Pay) Amendment Rules, 2008 | Download (946.7 KB) |
| 21 | The IAS (PAY) Rules, 2007 | Download (1015.01 KB) |
| 22 | The IFS (PAY) Rules, 2007 | Download (264.58 KB) |
| 23 | The IPS (PAY) Rules, 2007 | Download (291.68 KB) |
| 24 | Central Secretariat Service Rules, 1962 | Link |
| 25 | Central Secretariat Service Rules, 2009 | Download (1.15 MB) |
| 26 | Central Secretariat Clerical Service Rules | Link |
| 27 | CSSS Rules, 1969 | Download (519.41 KB) |
| 28 | CSSS (PPS Grade) Rules, 1989 | Link |
| 29 | CSSS (Senior PPS Grade) Rules, 2000 | Link |
| 30 | Brochure On Grant Of Casual Leave & Special Casual Leave | Link |
| 31 | Brochure On Casual Labourers | Link |
| 32 | Brochure On Post Retirement Commercial Employment | Download (906.39 KB) |
| 33 | Revised Scheme for Redeployment of Surplus Staff , 1989 | Download (83.1 KB) |
| 34 | All India Services Indemnity ACT | Link |
| 35 | Administrative Tribunals | Link |
| 36 | The Public Servants Inquiries ACT | |
| 37 | The Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of witnesses and Production of Documents) ACT | Link |
| 38 | Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 | Link |
| 39 | Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 | Link |
| 40 | Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 | Link |
| 41 | Draft Public Services Bill – 2007 | Download (59.92 KB) |
| 42 | The Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the Disclosure Bill, 2010 | Download (600.94 KB) |
| 43 | CVC Act 2003 | Link |
| 44 | CVC Act Amendment | Link |
| 45 | Gazette Notification(CVC) | Link |
| 46 | PC (Prevention Of Corruption) ACT, 1988 | Link |
| 47 | The Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 | Link |
| 48 | The Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Act, 2014 No. 28 of 2014 | |
| 49 | The Central Vigilance Commission (Staff) Rules, 2007 | Download (131.99 KB) |
| 50 | The Whistle Blowers Protection Act 2014 | Link |
| 51 | RTI ACT, 2005 | Link |
| 52 | RTI Rules, 2012 | Download (131.55 KB) |
| 53 | Compendium of Welfare Programmes Instruction | Download (4.24 MB) |
| 54 | Administrative Instructions on Departmental Canteens in Government Officers | Download (7.24 MB) |
| 55 | Fundamental Rules (FR 11 and FR 52,53 and 54) | Download (23.89 KB) |
| 56 | Extracts of provisions in F.R. 56 | Download (222.17 KB) |
| 57 | Compilation of Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules (Part-I) | Link |
| 58 | Brochure on JCM & CA | Download (4.21 MB) |
| 59 | CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993 | Download (187.57 KB) |
| 60 | Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 – Updated Version of the Bare Rules. | Download (1.46 MB) |
| 61 | One year Masters Degree course in Law under Young Leaders Program YLP Scholarship at the Kyushu University, Graduate School of Law, Japan from October 2020 to September 2021 | |
| 62 | Lokpal (Complaint ) Rules, 2020 | Link |
