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Delhi High Court held that the signed Booking Note, which overrode all previous arrangements and incorporated only Clauses 20—41, could not be read to include the arbitration clause in Clause 43 or the Fixture Recap, and restrained the London (LMAA) arbitration.
by Vasanth Rajasekaran* and Harshvardhan Korada**
by Vasanth Rajasekaran* and Harshvardhan Korada**
by Vasanth Rajasekaran* and Harshvardhan Korada**
Day 3, Session 1 of GHAC Arbitration Week 2026 brought together senior judges and jurists to examine what India’s arbitration framework should look like after three decades of legislative development, with the discussion focusing on judicial intervention, quality of arbitral awards, institutional arbitration, Section 11 appointments, Section 29A timelines, Section 34 challenges, consistency in Supreme Court jurisprudence and the need for greater professional and procedural discipline.
Senior arbitration practitioners and representatives of LCIA, SIAC, ICC and MCIA discuss the shift from ad hoc to institutional arbitration, appointment of arbitrators, award scrutiny, procedural efficiency, emergency arbitration and the institutional roadmap for GHAC.
At the inaugural ceremony of GHAC Arbitration Week 2026, Justice K.V. Viswanathan underscored restrained judicial intervention and institutional confidence, while Justice P.S. Narsimha, who could not attend the event in person, sent a message laying out a roadmap for organised institutional arbitration.
Five recent High Court rulings on arbitration and contractual disputes, spanning challenges to arbitral awards under Section 34, interim measures under Section 9, arbitrability of pre-agreement disputes, contractual modification and novation, and termination of arbitral proceedings under Section 32(2)(c), rounded up from SCC’s High Court Cases (HCC).
Pallavi Singh Rao*, Sukanya Singh** and Tridib Mandal***
by Vasanth Rajasekaran* and Harshvardhan Korada**
by Bhavya Shukla*, Yogendra Aldak** and Tamanna Sharma***
