Delhi High Court Rules That One Cannot Say That An Arbitration Clause Is Of No Consequence During A Dispute

The Delhi High Court on September 15, 2017 passed a judgement in the case Uday Chand Jindal v. Galgotia Publications Pvt. Ltd.¹, holding that when a party has signed an agreement which includes an arbitration clause then, during any dispute, the party cannot say that the arbitration clause is of no consequence in respect of grievance towards any of the clauses of the agreement.

Brief Facts of the case and proceedings before the Copyright Board:

• The Appellant claimed to be the author of several books and had given some of those books to the Respondent for publication. It is the claim of the Appellant that the Respondent fraudulently ripped certain chapters from the book "Engineering Mechanics (UPTU) by U. C. Jindal" and bound those with another book without permission from the author. The Appellant further claimed that the Respondent also re-printed the Appellant's books but never paid any royalty to him despite various reminders.