{"id":244655,"date":"2021-02-27T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=244655"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:49:48","slug":"do-consent-decrees-put-an-end-to-further-litigation-between-parties-in-all-cases-not-a-blanket-rule-holds-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/02\/27\/do-consent-decrees-put-an-end-to-further-litigation-between-parties-in-all-cases-not-a-blanket-rule-holds-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Do consent decrees put an end to further litigation between parties in all cases? 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Bandekar,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/19cS7wkg\"> (1996) 10 SCC 255<\/a><\/strong>, it has been held by the Supreme Court that <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>it would be slow to unilaterally interfere in, modify, substitute or modulate the terms of a consent decree, unless it is done with the revised consent of all the parties thereto.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, in <strong>Byram Pestonji Gariwala v. Union Bank of India, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/t3hl5oM5\">(1992) 1 SCC 31<\/a><\/strong>, it has been held that <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>a consent decree would not serve as an estoppel, where the compromise was vitiated by fraud, misrepresentation, or mistake. Further, this Court in the exercise of its inherent powers may also unilaterally rectify a consent decree suffering from clerical or arithmetical errors, so as to make it conform with the terms of the compromise.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence,\u00a0keeping\u00a0in line with the Court\u2019s jurisprudence in the above mentioned cases, the Court said that<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> it would be cautious in exercising it\u2019s inherent power to interfere in this consent decree, except where there is any exceptional or glaring error apparent on the face of the record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Compack Enterprises India (P) Ltd. v. Beant Singh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/POzsrK40\"><b>2021 SCC OnLine SC 97<\/b>,<\/a> decided on 17.02.2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Judgment by: Justice MM Shantanagoudar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: The bench of MM Shantanagoudar* and Vineet Saran, JJ has lucidly explained the law governing consent decree and has held <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":243203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[45316,9331,30215],"class_list":["post-244655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-supremecourt","tag-consent-decree","tag-interference","tag-judicial-interference"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do consent decrees put an end to further litigation between parties in all cases? 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