Section 34 Arbitration Act

India Digital ADR Summit 2026
DomesticEvents & CollaborationsIndia Digital ADR Summit

At the India Digital ADR Summit 2026, arbitration practitioners examined the challenges affecting the enforcement of arbitral awards, including the quality of awards, judicial intervention, domain expertise, institutional arbitration, patent illegality and the need for greater consistency and certainty in arbitration-related proceedings.

India Digital ADR Summit 2026
DomesticEvents & CollaborationsIndia Digital ADR Summit

At the India Digital ADR Summit 2026, arbitration professionals examined the steps required to position India as a competitive arbitration destination, including strengthening domestic confidence, promoting institutional arbitration, improving enforcement, developing specialised expertise and ensuring cost-efficient and time-bound dispute resolution.

GHAC Arbitration Week 2026
Events & CollaborationsGHAC Arbitration Week

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.

GHAC Arbitration Week 2026
Events & CollaborationsGHAC Arbitration Week

Experts at GHAC Arbitration Week 2026 examined how artificial intelligence is reshaping international and domestic arbitration, including its use in legal research, document review, cross-examination and drafting.

latest High Court cases on corporate law
Cases ReportedHigh Court Cases

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).

Article 227 challenge to Section 16 application
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Reiterating the legislative policy of minimal judicial interference in arbitral proceedings, the Court observed that interference under Article 227 is warranted only in rare cases involving a patent lack of inherent jurisdiction that is apparent on the face of the record

Section 34 Limitation
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Court clarified that limitation under Section 34, Arbitration Act, begins only upon disposal of proceedings formally instituted and entertained under Section 33 by the Arbitral Tribunal.

Due Process Challenges and Public Policy Review in Indian Arbitration
Events & CollaborationsLondon International Disputes Week

The distinction drawn at LIDW26 between due process challenges and public policy review finds a close parallel in Indian arbitration jurisprudence, where courts examine procedural fairness and public policy concerns through separate legal lenses.

Delhi High Court IRCTC licence fee revision
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court granted interim protection to IRCTC, holding that tariff-linked revision of licence fee raises a prima facie case and warrants a stay on the arbitral findings impacting IRCTC’s policy framework.

civil suit cannot nullify arbitral award
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Once arbitral award attains finality up to the Supreme Court, separate civil suit challenging underlying transaction on grounds of fraud is barred by Section 5 of the Arbitration Act and principles of finality.

Arbitral Tribunal cannot lift corporate veil
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Arbitrator went wrong in applying the doctrine of lifting the corporate veil/ determining another entity as the alter ego and fastening the liability on the petitioner.”

Arbitral award to TCS over cancelled exam
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The UPLA Secretariat terminated the agreement with TCS in 2016, citing anomalies in another examination conducted by TCS for the Railway Recruitment Board.”

Sections 33 and 34 Arbitration Act
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by Arush Khanna* and Gurdev Singh Tung**

civil suit cannot nullify arbitral award
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Arbitration, chosen by consent, cannot be overridden by post-facto civil suits on allegedly rediscovered facts otherwise arbitration will turn into a never-ending cycle of challenges.”

Unilateral Arbitrator Appointment
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The waiver under Section 4 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 will be inapplicable to the unilateral appointments as it is governed by Section 12(5), which specifically provides for waiver by express agreement in writing.”

Delay in curing registry defects
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court noted that the registry did not follow the procedure prescribed in the GHC Rules for movement of the papers from the registry to the competent Court, thus there was no occasion for consideration by the Court concerned as to whether the respondents were entitled to condonation of delay in removal of office objections.