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Section 34(5) Arbitration Notice: Procedural Requirement or Mandatory condition?

Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that Section 34(5) is a procedural requirement and not a mandatory precondition for challenging an arbitra...

June 16, 2026 288 Views 0 comment Print

SC’s Landmark Judgment on Modification of Arbitral Awards: Progress with Persistent Ambiguities

Corporate Law : A Constitution Bench held that courts can modify arbitral awards in limited situations such as correcting manifest errors and seve...

May 28, 2026 636 Views 0 comment Print

Foreign Arbitral Awards in India: Enforcement, Resistance & Judicial Attitudes

Corporate Law : Indian law permits enforcement of foreign arbitral awards unless specific exceptions apply. Courts now favour enforcement with min...

April 7, 2026 753 Views 0 comment Print

From Dispute to Arbitration: The Breaking Point Test

Corporate Law : The ruling clarifies that limitation for appointing an arbitrator starts only when negotiations fail and arbitration is clearly in...

January 28, 2026 687 Views 0 comment Print

Case Summary: Gayatri Balasamy Vs ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited (Supreme Court)

Corporate Law : Gayatri Balasamy Vs ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited (Supreme Court of India) – Citation- 2025 INSC 605 Overview of the Fa...

January 18, 2026 2121 Views 0 comment Print


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Draft Arbitration And Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2024: Comments Invited

Corporate Law : The Government invites public feedback on the Draft Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2024, aiming to enhance institu...

October 24, 2024 1641 Views 0 comment Print

Report on drafting Arbitral Rules for Proposed International Arbitration Centre at GIFT IFSC

Finance : The Expert Committee has submitted its report on drafting institutional arbitral rules for the International Arbitration Centre at...

July 17, 2024 1359 Views 0 comment Print

Arbitration under MSME Act

Corporate Law : Sub-section 3 of Section 18 of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006 provides that where the conci...

August 2, 2021 1992 Views 0 comment Print

HLC to review Institutionalisation of Arbitration Mechanism in India

Corporate Law : Comments invited on working paper of high level committee (HLC) to review Institutionalisation of Arbitration Mechanism in India b...

March 16, 2017 1194 Views 0 comment Print

Constitution of HLC to review Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism

Corporate Law : In order to ensure speedy resolution of commercial disputes and to facilitate effective conduct of international and domestic arbi...

December 29, 2016 949 Views 0 comment Print


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Section 29A Extension Must Be Filed Before Statutory Court, Not Appointing Court: SC

Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held that applications to extend an arbitral tribunals mandate under Section 29A must be filed before the Court ...

June 25, 2026 291 Views 0 comment Print

Arbitral Award Partly Set Aside as Tribunal Ignored GST Invoices on Non-Tendered Works

Corporate Law : The Karnataka High Court held that the arbitral award suffered from patent illegality because the Tribunal ignored invoices showin...

June 25, 2026 114 Views 0 comment Print

Section 34 Arbitration Petition Dismissed as Three-Month Limitation Expired Before Court Vacation

Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that Section 4 of the Limitation Act cannot be invoked where the prescribed limitation period expires befo...

June 22, 2026 189 Views 0 comment Print

Mere Arbitration Clause Does Not Mandate Reference to Arbitration: NCLT Bengaluru

Company Law : The NCLT held that the mere existence of an arbitration clause in a Shareholders' Agreement does not automatically require dispute...

June 18, 2026 174 Views 0 comment Print

SC Upholds District Court Jurisdiction Under Arbitration Act as Orissa HC Lacks Original Civil Jurisdiction

Corporate Law : The Orissa High Court held that dismissal of a Section 34 petition on maintainability grounds effectively amounts to refusal to se...

May 24, 2026 399 Views 0 comment Print


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Delhi High Court Issues New Practice Directions for Arbitration Petitions

Corporate Law : Delhi High Court mandates email and mobile service for arbitration petitions under Section 11(6) of the Arbitration Act, effective...

May 20, 2024 855 Views 0 comment Print

SEBI Clarifies Disclosure of Arbitral Proceedings under LODR Regulations

SEBI : SEBI issues guidance to GAIL (India) Limited on disclosing arbitral proceedings details as per LODR Regulations, ensuring complian...

October 4, 2023 2934 Views 0 comment Print

India International Arbitration Centre (Conduct of Arbitration) Regulations, 2023

Corporate Law : 1) These regulations may be called the India International Arbitration Centre (Conduct of Arbitration) Regulations, 2023. (2) T...

August 31, 2023 1128 Views 0 comment Print

New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Bill, 2022

Corporate Law : New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Bill, 2022 is Introduced in Lok Sabha to to change the name of the Centre f...

July 29, 2022 1353 Views 0 comment Print

Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2021

Corporate Law : (1) This Act may be called the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2021. (2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it ...

March 11, 2021 4284 Views 0 comment Print


Unreasoned Award is against the mandate of Arbitration & Conciliation Act

May 18, 2022 1062 Views 0 comment Print

Jayaram Panda Vs Project Director (Orissa High Court) Sub-section (3) in section 31 mandates that the arbitral award shall state the reasons, upon which it is based unless, inter alia, it is to be made as per the clauses (a) and (b) in the sub-section. Said clauses do not apply in the facts and circumstances, […]

Critical Analysis on Mandatory Binding Arbitration in India

May 18, 2022 3201 Views 0 comment Print

Explore the issue of mandatory binding arbitration in India and its critical analysis. Learn about the impact on double taxation avoidance agreements and dispute resolution mechanisms.

Security Deposit or Bank Guarantee condition cannot be imposed merely for Weak Financial Condition of a Party

May 17, 2022 4047 Views 0 comment Print

Manish Aggarwal Vs RCI Industries And Technologies Ltd. (Delhi High Court) In the present case, quite clearly, the learned Sole Arbitrator has declined to grant the interlocutory order sought by the appellants in exercise of his discretionary power under section 17 of the A&C Act. Has this discretionary power been exercised in a manner that […]

Arbitrator can recall order earlier passed by it if sufficient cause being shown

May 17, 2022 7698 Views 0 comment Print

Arbitral Tribunal had, on sufficient cause being shown, the power to recall the order passed by it under Section 25(a) of 1996 Act, terminating arbitral proceedings.

SC refers Doctrine of Group of Companies to Larger Bench for relook

May 17, 2022 2766 Views 0 comment Print

Cox And Kings Limited Vs Sap India Private Limited (Supreme Court of India) Supreme Court referred following aspects of application of doctrine of ‘Group of Companies’, which is mostly utilised to bind non-signatories to an Arbitration Agreement, to a larger Bench for relook- A. Whether the Group of Companies Doctrine should be read into Section 8 of the Act or whether […]

Petitioner cannot reduce contract period Retrospectively after extending Contract

May 17, 2022 2502 Views 0 comment Print

North Delhi Municipal Corporation Vs IJM Corporation Berhad (Delhi High Court) Delhi High Court held that when Petitioner has granted the contractor an extension of time for a specified period, it cannot turn around to contend that the extension was mere provisional and it’s allowed to reassess or reduce the amount of days by which […]

Arbitral Award can be set aside for inordinate and unexplained delay

May 10, 2022 5682 Views 0 comment Print

Whether the delay in making the impugned award rendered it liable to be set aside as opposed to public policy would also necessarily have to be considered in the context of the challenge?

Arbitrator to decide on need to impleaded third party

May 8, 2022 6477 Views 0 comment Print

Vistrat Real Estates Private Limited Vs Asian Hotels North Ltd (Delhi High Court) Once a valid arbitration agreement exists between the parties, the issue whether the petitioner is entitled to any relief in the absence of a third party to the agreement or that third party is required to be impleaded in the proceedings, is […]

Court cannot interfere on question of construction of contract which is reasonably interpreted by Arbitral Tribunal.

May 6, 2022 2412 Views 0 comment Print

The impugned award rests on interpretation of certain clauses of the Agreements executed between the parties. As noted above, the question of construction of a contract falls squarely within the jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal.

Non-agreement on arbitrator not a justifiable ground to dispense with invocation of arbitration under Section 21

May 6, 2022 5673 Views 0 comment Print

Malvika Rajnikant Mehta Vs JESS Construction (Bombay High Court) Facts- The applicants executed a deed of conveyance in favour of the respondent. The Conveyance Deed provided for a mechanism for resolution of dispute between the parties through arbitration to be presided over by Mr. Kirti K. Shah, an Architect, as the sole Arbitrator. Asserting that […]

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