independence and impartiality of arbitrator
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The issue of under-stamping is often weaponized in arbitral proceedings and used to trip up the adjudication of disputes by way of arbitration. Arbitrators, being private persons, tend to be timid and send the instruments to the Stamp Authorities despite being entitled to compute the stamp duty amount and penalty component themselves.”

MIAL replaces Celebi NAS with new airport handler
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“It was made clear that the tender process was not stalled and it could continue until the point of selection of the replacement operator, and only the actual final appointment was to be kept on hold.”

Arbitral Award quashed over redacted disclosures
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court emphasised upon transparency in arbitration proceedings by setting aside an arbitral tribunal’s order which was based on a heavily redacted document. The Court categorically held that allowing parties to squirrel some information into the court record “in sealed cover” undermines every concept of fair justice and openness and transparency in the decision-making process.

delisting Victorinox products on Amazon
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“Should Gute Reise be desirous of using its account with Amazon for selling any products other than Victorinox’s branded products, it shall be free to do so, and Amazon shall not stand in the way of Gute Reise selling other products.”

Bombay High Court
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The Court agreed with Hemang Jadavji Shah’s contention that the intention to keep him in custody was to recover the amount that was sought to be settled in the mediation between the petitioner and his family members.

Bombay High Court
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At the most, the petitioner’s act of sharing the post can be termed as an indiscretion by a young student still taking education, but still the Sinhagad Academy of Engineering rusticated her.

Bombay High Court
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Arguing that the LLP is a “third party” to the LLP Agreement is much like arguing that a company is a third party to its own Articles of Association.

Bombay High Court
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“It is now trite law that State agencies cannot hide behind the conventional excuse of bureaucratic delays and inefficiency in the State’s capacity, to condone delays.”

Bombay High Court
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The Court granted injunction in favour of Wonderchef while bearing in mind that free speech cannot be lightly proscribed, and commercial speech formed a part of it.

Bombay High Court
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Even if it is presumed that signing an agreement with an arbitration clause can be regarded as submission of a (non-existent) dispute to arbitration, it will not follow that as a matter of law, since there will be no implied authority to execute such a contract. All these are issues that will pose mixed questions of fact and law and will relate to the substance of existence rather than the form of existence, i.e., a written agreement.

Bombay High Court
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The writ court must be careful to ensure that outside narrow scope, no intervention is made that interferes with the progress of the election.

Bombay High Court
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Section 7(1)(a) of the Maharashtra Regulation of Marriage Bureaus and Registration of Marriages Act, 1998 contemplates that the Registrar must ensure that the marriage between parties is performed in accordance with the personal law of the parties and under the personal laws for Muslims, they are entitled to have four wives at a time.

India ADR Week 2024
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Day 2 and 3 of India Alternative Disputes Resolution Week 2024 in Mumbai featured intense discussions on sports arbitration, appointment of experts as arbitrators and modification of arbitral awards.

Bombay High Court
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Respondents cannot have an approach that the orders passed by this Court issuing specific directions are rendered meaningless and the proceedings are to be listed only to be adjourned.