Adv. Harjeet Singh

Referring parties to arbitration under Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 is mandatory, not discretionary: once a party applies before submitting its first statement on the substance of the dispute, the judicial authority must refer the parties to arbitration unless it finds that prima facie no valid arbitration agreement exists. The Supreme […]

The SEBI (Buy-Back of Securities) Amendment Regulations 2026 were notified on 1 July 2026 and come into force on 1 August 2026. They restore open market buy-back through the stock exchange, a route that has been unavailable to listed companies since 1 April 2025, subject to a ceiling of less than 15% of paid-up capital

Cross-border and group insolvency under the IBC Amendment Act 2026 rest on two new provisions: Section 240C, which lets the Central Government prescribe rules for recognising and cooperating with foreign insolvency proceedings, and Chapter VA, which does the same where two or more companies in a group go through insolvency together. Neither provision is in

Kompetenz-kompetenz is the rule that an arbitral tribunal may rule on its own jurisdiction, and separability of the arbitration clause is the rule that the clause is treated as an agreement independent of the contract containing it. Both sit in Section 16(1) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, and together they settle who rules

Arbitration vs conciliation vs mediation turns on a single question: does the neutral decide the dispute, or do the parties? Arbitration is adjudicatory, and it ends in a binding award under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. Conciliation and mediation are not adjudicatory, because the neutral only helps the parties reach their own settlement, which

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The arbitration procedure in India runs from a written arbitration agreement under Section 7 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, through reference to arbitration, appointment of the tribunal, pleadings, hearings and the award, to enforcement of that award as a decree of the court. What the bare text of the Act does not show

Seat vs venue vs place of arbitration is a three-way distinction that decides which court controls an arbitration, not merely where the hearings sit. “Place” is the word the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 actually uses in Section 20; the “seat” is the juridical home that fixes the supervisory court and the law governing the

An arbitration agreement under Section 7 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 is an agreement to submit present or future disputes arising out of a defined legal relationship, whether contractual or not, to arbitration, and it is valid only if it is in writing in one of the forms set out in Section 7(4).

The most common arbitration clause drafting mistakes in India are permissive “may” language, a missing or confused seat, one-sided appointment mechanisms, and over-broad scope that captures non-arbitrable disputes, and each one can make the clause unenforceable or stall it for months. Two Supreme Court rulings in 2023 and 2024 reset the ground: an unstamped agreement