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Jan De Nul Dredging India Pvt. Ltd. v. Tuticorin Port Trust; 2026 INSC 34 - Ss.34,37 Arbitration Act

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Regenta Hotels Private Limited v. Hotel Grand Centre Point - 2026 INSC 32 - Ss.9,21 Arbitration Act

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Motilal Oswal Financial Service Limited vs Santosh Cordeiro 2026 INSC 5 - Arbitration Act

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Bhagheeratha Engineering Ltd vs State of Kerala 2026 INSC 4 -Arbitration Act

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Bhadra International (India) Pvt. Ltd. vs Airports Authority of India 2026 INSC 6 - Arbitration - Ineligibility

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996- Section 12(5)- The ineligibility of an arbitrator can be waived only by an express agreement in writing. The requirement of the waiver to be made expressly in the form of agreement in writing ensures that parties are not divested of their right to

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Ramesh Kumar Jain v. Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO); 2025 INSC 1457 - S.34 Arbitration Act - S.70 Contract Act

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Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Ltd. v. Tecpro Systems Ltd.; 2025 INSC 1447 - S.11 Arbitration Act - Consortium Member

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Mohan Lal Fatehpuria v. Bharat Textiles 2025 INSC 1409 - S.29A Arbitration Act

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Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. v. BCL Secure Premises Pvt. Ltd.; 2025 INSC 1401 - S.11 Arbitration Act - Veritable Party

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Harshbir Singh Pannu v. Jaswinder Singh 2025 INSC 1400 -S.32 Arbitration Act - Termination

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State of Jharkhand v. The Indian Builders Jamshedpur; 2025 INSC 1388 - Bharat Drilling - Referred To Larger Bench - Excepted Or Prohibitory Clauses

Read Judgment In LawLens Arbitration and Conciliation Act - Bharat Drilling & Foundation Treatment Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Jharkhand is not an authority for the proposition that an excepted clause or a prohibited claim in a contract applies only to the employer and not to the Arbitral Tribunal -

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BPL Limited v. Morgan Securities and Credits Pvt. Ltd.; 2025 INSC 1380 - Arbitration Act - Interest - Party Autonomy - Commercial Contract

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Hindustan Construction Company Ltd. v. Bihar Rajya Pul Nirman Nigam Ltd., 2025 INSC 1365 - Arbitration Act - Waiver Regime - Review Powers

Read Judgment In LawLens 💡Whether the joint application filed by both parties, seeking extension of the arbitrator’s mandate under Section 29A constitutes an express or implied waiver of the ineligibility under Section 12(5), and Section 4 of the Act? Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 -Section 4, 12(5)

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Popular Caterers v. Ameet Mehta 2025 INSC 1354 - Arbitration - CPC - Order XLI Rule 5

Code of Civil Procedure 1908 - Order XLI Rule 3,5 -For the purpose of granting of benefit of unconditional stay of the execution of money-decree, it has to be established more than prima facie that: (i) The decree is egregiously perverse, (ii) is riddled with patent illegalities, (iii)is

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Balaji Steel Trade v. Fludor Benin S.A 2025 INSC 1342 - Arbitration Act - Foreign Seated Arbitration

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 -Part I - Indian Courts have no jurisdiction to appoint an arbitrator for a foreign-seated arbitration, irrespective of the nationality or domicile of the parties (Para 30)- Part I of the 1996 Act has no application to arbitrations seated outside India. The seat has

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Sri Lakshmi Hotel Pvt. Limited v. Sriram City Union Finance Ltd. 2025 INSC 1327 - Arbitration Act - Exorbitant Interest - Public Policy

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 - Section 34 - Any difference or controversy as to rate of interest clearly falls outside the scope of challenge on the ground of conflict with the public policy of India unless it is evident that the rate of interest awarded is so perverse and

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Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corp. Ltd vs Brandavan Food Products; 2025 INSC 1294 - S.34 Arbitration Act - Rewriting Contract

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 - Section 34 -Rewriting a contract for the parties would be a breach of the fundamental principles of justice, entitling a Court to interfere as it would shock its conscience and would fall within the exceptional category. (Para 65) [Context: SC set aside an award

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Alchemist Hospitals Ltd. v. ICT Health Technology Services India Pvt. Ltd.; 2025 INSC 1289 - S.7 Arbitration Act

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 - Section 7 - Mere use of the word “arbitration” in a clause of an agreement is not clinching or decisive. Section 7 presupposes an express intention of the dispute/difference being resolved through arbitration and mere reference to the term is not sufficient to

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Adani Enterprises Ltd. v. Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd. - Arbitration - Eye Of The Needle Test

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 - Section 11(6)-– Tests like “eye of the needle” and “ex facie meritless” are not in conformity with the principles of modern arbitration which place arbitral autonomy and judicial noninterference on the highest pedestal. (Para 3) Case Info Case Details * Case name: Adani

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MMTC Limited v. Anglo American Metallurgical Coal Pvt. Limited; 2025 INSC 1279 - S.47 CPC

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Section 47- The object of Section 47 is to prevent unwarranted litigation and dispose of all objections as expeditiously as possible- TThere is a steady rise of proceedings akin to a retrial which causes failure of realization of the fruits of a decree, unless

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Offshore Infrastructures Ltd v. Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd; 2025 INSC 1196 - Arbitration - Appointment of Arbitrator

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 - Section 11(6), 12(5)- Merely because the procedure to appoint an arbitrator provided in the clause has become inoperative due to subsequent changes in statutory provisions, would not mean that the core of the contract referring the dispute for adjudication to arbitrator

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Lancor Holdings Limited vs Prem Kumar Menon 2025 INSC 1277 - S.34 Arbitration Act - Effect Of Delay In Award Pronouncement

❓What is the effect of undue and unexplained delay in the pronouncement of an arbitral award upon its validity? Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 - Section 34 -(Prior to insertion of Section 29A) - Delay in the delivery of an arbitral award, by itself, is not sufficient to set

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Urban Infrastructure Real Estate Fund vs Neelkanth Realty Private Limited 2025 INSC 1255 - Arbitration - Plea Of Demurrer - Limitation

Plea of demurrer -The plea of demurrer is an act of objecting or taking exception or a protest. It is a pleading made by one party which “assumes” the truth of the matter as alleged by the opposite party, but sets up that it is insufficient in law to sustain

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Alan Mervyn Arthur Stephenson v. J. Xavier Jayarajan 2025 INSC 1228 - Arbitration Appointment - Barred By Limitation

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 - Section 11(5) - SC dismissed petition seeking appointment of arbitrator on the ground that the notice of arbitration was delayed and barred by limitation and the arbitration request itself was made two years after the initial notice. Case Info Case Details * Case name:

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SEPCO Electric Power Construction Corporation v. GMR Kamalanga Energy Ltd. 2025 INSC 1171 - Natural Justice - S.34 Arbitration Act

Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996- Section 34,18 - Audi alteram partem as a fundamental juristic principle- When a party is unable to analyse, comment or argue on a contention raised by the other party, it will certainly be deemed as a breach of natural justice and thereby, also a