Section 6A Archives

Events & Collaborations GHAC Arbitration Week

GHAC Arbitration Week 2026: Six Jurisdictions, One Question — Who Decides the Law Governing an Arbitration Agreement?

A cross-border panel including V.K. Rajah SC, Darius Khambata, Thomas Williams KC, Datuk Prof. Sundra Rajoo and Nish Shetty, moderated by Anirudh Krishnan, traces the law governing arbitration agreements across England, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, France, Malaysia and India, from Enka v Chubb to England’s new Arbitration Act 2025, and closes with a wide-ranging discussion on institutional reform, backlog and what makes a good arbitral seat.

Case Briefs Supreme Court (Constitution/Larger Benches)

In-depth analysis of Supreme Court’s majority verdict on Section 6A of Citizenship Act

Supreme Court affirmed that the cut-off date of 25 March 1971 is rational as on the said date, Pakistani Army launched Operation Search Light to curb Bengali nationalist movement in East Pakistan. The migrants before the operation were migrants of partition towards which India had a liberal policy. Migrants from Bangladesh after the said date were migrants of war and not partition.