The petitioner and appellants challenged the constitutional validity of the Karnataka Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2023 and the Karnataka High Court (Amendment) Act, 2023, which were published on 19.06.2024. These amendments raised the pecuniary jurisdiction of Civil Judges, redirected appeals from Senior Civil Judges exclusively to the District Court (removing the High Court as an appellate forum in certain cases), and purported to operate retrospectively from 28.08.2007, thereby transferring pending Regular First Appeals from the High Court to the District Courts. A Single Judge had earlier upheld the constitutional validity of the legislations but struck down their retrospective operation, directing pending appeals to be transferred to competent District Courts. The Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court (comprising the Chief Justice and Justice C.M. Poonacha) heard the writ appeal and the connected writ petition together, examining issues of legislative competence, lack of consultation, retrospectivity, forum of appeal as procedural law, purposive interpretation, the doctrine of reading down, and discrimination under Article 14 of the Constitution of India.