Tag: Conciliation Act
No stamp, no arbitration
Supreme Court judgment on 25 April 2023 (NN Global Mercantile Pvt Ltd v Indo Unique Flame Ltd) finally settled the ongoing legal conundrum of the enforceability of an arbitration agreement in an unstamped contract
When arbitration suits the court
An April 2023 decision by a division bench of the Supreme Court of India has held that arbitration is the appropriate method of deciding whether a development agreement can be lawfully cancelled
Top court steps in to settle jurisdiction disputes
The tug of war over jurisdiction has surfaced many times in arbitration proceedings, necessitating the Supreme Court to step in repeatedly to settle disputes
Court not obliged to remit matters to arbitral tribunals
In a Supreme Court judgment it was held that section 34(4) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 can be used to record reasons for findings already produced in an award
Arbitral awards bound by contract
The Indian Supreme Court has set aside an arbitral tribunal’s award for acting beyond the confines of a contract executed between parties
