Section 37 Arbitration Act Archives

Events & Collaborations GHAC Arbitration Week

India’s arbitration wish list: Finality, institutionalisation and judicial discipline at GHAC Arbitration Week 2026

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.

Cases Reported High Court Cases

Cases Reported in HCC | Latest High Court Cases on Corporate Law

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).

Case Briefs High Courts

Chhattisgarh HC set asides BSNL’s arbitral award for patent illegality in loss of profit claim; Directs refund of security deposit

“An arbitral tribunal, being a creature of contract, cannot grant relief in disregard of contractual stipulations.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Detailed Breakdown of Gujarat High Court Ruling on Delay in curing registry defects under Section 34 and its impact on arbitration applications

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.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Novel plea of non-receipt of signed award copy cannot be raised in appeal’; Gujarat HC rejects NHAI’s appeals against dismissal of S. 34 applications due to delay

“A novel plea has been taken for the first time without any substantial basis on the factual aspects about the non-delivery of the copy of the award by the Arbitrator to the NHAI, in the present appeal, which cannot be appreciated within the limited scope of Section 37.”