Delhi High Court Sets Aside Anti-Arbitration Injunction Issued Against McDonalds

Delhi High Court: 

• Upholds the sanctity of the arbitration agreement
• The forum of arbitration and the place of such proceedings, when agreed upon by the parties to an agreement, cannot be held to be 'inconvenient'
• Holds that the mere existence of multiple proceedings is not sufficient to render an arbitration agreement inoperative.

INTRODUCTION

A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court ("Court") in the case of McDonalds India Private Limited ("MIPL") vs. Vikram Bakshi and Ors.¹("Respondents") has set aside an order of the learned Single Judge of the Delhi High Court, thus vacating an order of injunction restraining the Appellant from pursuing institutional arbitral proceedings in London.