Time-Limit for Arbitral Award

extension of arbitral mandate under Section 29-A
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The ‘Court’ under Section 29A shall be the Civil Court of ordinary original jurisdiction in a district and includes the High Court in exercise of its original civil jurisdiction under Section 2(1)(e), and shall not be the High Court or the Supreme Court under Section 11(6) of the Act.”

Andhra Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“If the intention of the Parliament were to vest the power of extending the mandate of an Arbitrator under Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 only in High Court as envisaged under Section 11, then nothing could have prevented it from providing so.”

Op EdsOP. ED.

by Puneet Taneja*