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The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Ordinance 2020: A Counterproductive Stratagem?
The authors analyse how the recent amendments to the arbitration law are counterintuitive to India’s evolution into an arbitration avenue.
Harsh Pati Tripathi, Uddeshya Singh
Dec 26, 20206 min read
The Amazon-Future Group Dispute: Evaluating Alternative Resolution Approach
[Priya is a student at National Law University, Delhi.] The recent deal between Future Group and Reliance has been the centre of...
Priya
Nov 29, 20206 min read
Anti-Arbitration Injunction in India: Balasore Attempts to Settle the Debate
[Abhinav is a student at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata] A single-judge bench of Calcutta High Court on...
Abhinav Gupta
Oct 24, 20206 min read
How Serious is Serious Enough? Understanding Arbitrability of Fraud in India
[Shourya is an Associate (Dispute Resolution) at SAMVAD Partners (New Delhi) and an Editor at IRCCL, while Anujay is a law graduate...
Shourya Bari, Anujay Shrivastava
Oct 5, 20206 min read
Applying Issue Estoppel in Enforcement Proceedings in India: Preventing a Second Bite at the Cherry
[Himanshu and Umang are students at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.] Issue preclusion, also known as issue estoppel, precludes a...
Himanshu Raghuvanshi, Umang Bhat Nair
Aug 20, 20207 min read
Arbitrability of Tenancy Disputes in India: Current Position and Expectations from the Future
[Chitransh is a student at National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi.] Arbitrability of any issue is concerned with the...
Chitransh Vijayvergia
Aug 15, 20206 min read
Supreme Court’s Ping Pong and the Need for a Conclusive Test to Determine the Arbitral Seat
[Anhad is a practising commercial lawyer based out of Chandigarh and Delhi, having graduated from National Law School of India...
Anhad S. Miglani
Jul 12, 20206 min read
NAFED v. Alimenta: Whether 'Fundamental Policy of India' Was Falsely Relied Upon for Setting
[Deeksha and Bodhisattwa are students at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai.] The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has seemingly...
Deeksha Sahni, Bodhisattwa Majumder
Jun 28, 20206 min read
The Superon Case: Delhi HC Reopens the Debate on Section 13(1A) of the Commercial Courts Act
[Pinak Parikh is an Associate at Singhi & Co.] In D&H India Limited v. Superon Schweisstechnik India Limited (Superon), the commercial...
Pinak Parikh
Jun 23, 20206 min read
Quasi-Unilateral Appointment of Arbitrators: Where Did India Get it Wrong?
[Himanshu and Umang are students at NALSAR University of Law.] In November 2019, the Supreme Court of India (Supreme Court), in Perkins...
Himanshu Raghuvanshi, Umang Bhat Nair
Jun 14, 20206 min read
SEAMEC v. Oil India – Was The Award Really Perverse?
[Shebani and Jai are students at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai.] In its recent decision, the Supreme Court of India (SC)...
Shebani Bhargava, Jai Sanyal
Jun 11, 20206 min read
The NAFED Decision: Conundrum of Enforcing a Foreign Award
[Shreya and Ishani are students at National Law University, Odisha.] In a landmark judgement rendered by the apex court of India in the...
Shreya Sahoo, Ishani Jammula
Jun 6, 20206 min read
Unraveling the Dilemma of Application of Amended Section 29A of Arbitration and Conciliation Act
[Anshika Sharma and Khyati Mehrotra are students at ILS Law College, Pune.] Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996...
Anshika Sharma, Khyati Mehrotra
May 10, 20206 min read
Delhi HC's Perspective on Retrospective Application of Sections 23(4) & 29(4) of the Arbitration Act
[Piyush Agrawal and Sunil Singh are students at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.] On 23 January 2020, the single bench of...
Piyush Agrawal, Sunil Singh
May 8, 20206 min read
Indian Supreme Court Settles the Seat-Venue-Place Conundrum
[Muskan Arora is a student at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.] The choice of a seat of arbitration and...
Muskan Arora
May 4, 20206 min read
Making India a Hub for Institutional Arbitration: Is it a Dream Too Far from Reality?
[Aditya Sethi is a student at School of Law, Christ University.] The arbitration regime in India has had a chequered past. The three...
Aditya Sethi
Feb 23, 20207 min read
Implication of Unstamped Documents on Arbitration Agreements
[Mrudula Dixit is a student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.] In dispute resolution circles, the Supreme Court of India’s judgment in...
Mrudula Dixit
Feb 18, 20206 min read
Venue = Seat? Indian Supreme Court's Dismal Stirring of Settled Precedents
[Achyutha GM is a student at Gujarat National Law University.] On 25 July 2018, a big blow was given by the Supreme Court of India...
Achyutha GM
Dec 10, 20196 min read
Examining the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill 2019
[The following update is brought to you by Amrit Singh, who is an Editor at IRCCL.] On 15 July 2019, the Minister for Law and Justice,...
Amrit Singh
Aug 7, 20193 min read
Arbitrator's Power vis-a-vis Grant of Interest Pendente Lite: Supreme Court Settles the Law
[Rajarshi Singh is a student at National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi.] The Supreme Court of India (Court), recently,...
Rajarshi Singh
Jul 12, 20196 min read
The Singapore Convention - Will Mediation be the new Arbitration?
[Sakshi Vijay is Senior Research Associate at Jindal Global University.] Singapore will be the witness and the namesake for the signing...
Sakshi Vijay
Jun 23, 20196 min read
The Mutual Assistance Arrangement for Court-ordered Interim Measures in Arbitration between Mainland
[Abhinav Srivastava is a graduate of National Law University, Delhi and is currently based out of New Delhi. He is interested in the...
Abhinav Srivastava
May 19, 20196 min read
Remittal of Arbitral Award: An Analysis of Section 34(4) of the Arbitration Act
[Tanya Varshney is a fourth-year student at Jindal Global Law School.] In Kinnari Mullick v. Ghanshyam Das Damani, the Supreme Court of...
Tanya Varshney
Sep 29, 20184 min read
SC Clears the Air on Commencement of Limitation Period for Setting Aside Arbitral Award
[Rishi Sehgal is a fourth-year student at RMLNLU Lucknow.] On August 8, 2018, the Supreme Court of India, in Ved Prakash Mithal v. Union...
Rishi Sehgal
Sep 25, 20185 min read
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