662 results found

January 12th, 2017 is a date earmarked in judicial history, an event that witnessed four senior most sitting Judges of Supreme Court of India, publicly raising concerns about the structural flaws...

The flow chart is indicative & for general guidance only.

The Calcutta High Court examined whether a bank's application for arbitration, filed 11 months after first appearance and without submitting a written statement, constituted a waiver of arbitration rights under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The case arose from a business loan dispute where the borrower claimed full settlement while the lender demanded additional amounts, raising critical questions about the temporal limits for invoking arbitration clauses in civil suits.

By a judgment delivered on 15 February 2018 in Sundaram Finance v Abdul Samad & Anr, a two Judge bench of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India has clarified the anomaly with regard to the appropriate jurisdiction for enforcement of an arbitral award.

The Supreme Court of India has released the Draft Model Rules (hereinafter referred to as ‘Rules') for Live-Streaming and Recording of Court proceedings on May 28, 2021.

Interim relief serves as a significant safeguard in the arbitration process, ensuring that assets are protected and the final award remains meaningful rather than a “useless victory”.

We, humans, have an odd penchant for worshipping others of our kind who've hit the jackpot of fame and fortune. Enter the celebrity, that shiny beacon of societal adoration.

In recent times, inside courtrooms across India, the traditional file folder stuffed with documents has progressively given way to pen drives, email printouts, recordings and CCTV footage etc.

A Division Bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, in its judgment dated June 9, 2026, addressed a compelling intersection of contempt jurisdiction...

Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, prescribes strict timelines for arbitration proceedings, but what happens when these deadlines expire?

The apex court once again deprecated the practice of challenging non-appealable orders passed by the arbitral tribunal under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 by way of filing petitions under Article 226/227 ...

Aggrieved by the dismissal of an application filed under Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 CPC, Dabur India Limited filed an appeal to the decision of the Ld. Single Judge of the Delhi High Court, in Dabur India Ltd. v. Amit Jain & Anr. {2009 (39) PTC 104 (Del.)}. Dabur claiming to be the fourth largest fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company in India, and that they were in trade since 1884, filed this appeal in pursuance to the design registration in the packaging of its hair oil for the bottle and cap.

Transborder reputation has been a matter of dispute, largely elucidated and deliberated upon in the law of trademarks. The principle however finds itself extrapolated to other realms of intellectual property disputes as well.

The term "interlocutory order" is a term that has no lack of well-known legal significance and appears to present no complex difficulty.

The Delhi High Court examined whether an arbitration agreement existed when the arbitration clause appeared only on the reverse side of commercial invoices and was never separately signed by the receiving party. The Court's determination centered on whether acceptance of goods and part-payment of invoices could constitute acceptance of arbitration terms printed on those invoices, raising fundamental questions about contract formation in commercial transactions.

Arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism has gained a lot of traction due to its flexibility, convenience, cost efficiency and especially as a faster mode of resolution of disputes.

Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 ("IPC") was introduced in 1983 and the statement of objects and reasons explained that (a) the increasing number of dowry deaths...