{"id":267525,"date":"2022-05-27T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=267525"},"modified":"2022-06-03T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:19:47","slug":"seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>: The bench of Ajay Rastogi and <strong>Sanjiv Khanna*<\/strong>, JJ has held that subsequent hearings or proceedings at a different location other than the place fixed by the arbitrator as the \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019 should not be regarded and treated as a change or relocation of jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court was deciding the question as to whether conducting the arbitration proceedings at Delhi, owing to the appointment of a new arbitrator, would shift the \u2018jurisdictional seat of arbitration\u2019 from Panchkula in Haryana, the place fixed by the first arbitrator for the arbitration proceedings in the case at hand.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Fixed seat of arbitration \u2013 General Principle <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to avoid uncertainty and confusion resulting in avoidable esoteric and hermetic litigation as to the jurisdictional \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019, the Court observed that \u2018the seat\u2019 once fixed by the arbitral tribunal under Section 20(2) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, should remain static and fixed, whereas the \u2018venue\u2019 of arbitration can change and move from \u2018the seat\u2019 to a new location. Venue is not constant and stationary and can move and change in terms of sub-section (3) to Section 20 of the Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOnce the jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019 of arbitration is fixed in terms of sub-section (2) of Section 20 of the Act, then, without the express mutual consent of the parties to the arbitration, \u2018the seat\u2019 cannot be changed. Therefore, the appointment of a new arbitrator who holds the arbitration proceedings at a different location would not change the jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019 already fixed by the earlier or first arbitrator. The place of arbitration in such an event should be treated as a venue where arbitration proceedings are held.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court observed that it is highly desirable in commercial matters, in fact in all cases, that there should be certainty as to the court that should exercise jurisdiction. The law of arbitration visualises repeated or constant shifting of the \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019. In fact, sub-section (3) of Section 20 specifically states and draws a distinction between the venue of arbitration and the \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019 by stating that for convenience and other reasons, the arbitration proceedings may be held at a place different than the \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019, which location is referred to the venue of arbitration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court held that <strong><em>holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation and (what is worse) confusion which was not intended by the Act<\/em><\/strong>. The place of jurisdiction or \u2018the seat\u2019 must be certain and static and not vague or changeable, as the parties should not be in doubt as to the jurisdiction of the courts for availing of judicial remedies. Further, there would be a risk of parties rushing to the courts to get first hearing or conflicting decisions that the law does not contemplate and is to be avoided.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Effect of supervisory jurisdiction by the courts<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, exercise of supervisory jurisdiction by the courts where the arbitration proceedings are being conducted is a relevant consideration, but not a conclusive and determinative factor when the venue is not \u2018the seat\u2019. \u2018The seat\u2019 determines the jurisdiction of the courts. There would be situations where the venue of arbitration in terms of sub-section of 28 (3) of Section 20 would be different from the place of the jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019, and it is equally possible majority or most of the hearing may have taken place at a venue which is different from the \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Effect of substantive Proceedings being held at a different venue <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There could be cases where the arbitration proceedings are held at different locations, but the \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019, as agreed by the parties or as determined by the arbitrator, may be different, and at that place \u2013 \u2018the seat\u2019, only a few hearings or initial proceedings may have been held. This would not matter and would not result in shifting of the jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019. Arbitrators can fix the place of residence, place of work, or in case of recusal, arbitration proceedings may be held at two different places, as in the present case. For clarity and certainty, which is required when the question of territorial jurisdiction arises, the place or the venue fixed for arbitration proceedings, when sub-section (2) of Section 20 applies, will be the jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019 and the courts having jurisdiction over the jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019 would have exclusive jurisdiction. This principle would have exception that would apply when by mutual consent the parties agree that the jurisdictional \u2018seat\u2019 should be changed, and such consent must be express and clearly understood and agreed by the parties.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Conclusion <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Applying the law to the case at hand, the Court held that the courts having jurisdiction over Panchkula in Haryana, have exclusive jurisdiction. The courts in Delhi would not get jurisdiction as the jurisdictional \u2018seat of arbitration\u2019 is Panchkula and not Delhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[BBR (India) Pvt. Ltd. v. SP Singla Constructions Pvt. Ltd., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/9PO7eLFA\"><b>2022 SCC OnLine SC 642<\/b><\/a>, decided on 18.05.2022]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">*Judgment by: Justice Sanjiv Khanna<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: The bench of Ajay Rastogi and Sanjiv Khanna*, JJ has held that subsequent hearings or proceedings at a different location <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":267537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[3226,30526,49567,49566,49568,15551,12161],"class_list":["post-267525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-supremecourt","tag-arbitration","tag-arbitration-proceedings","tag-change-of-seat-of-arbitration","tag-change-of-venue","tag-consent-of-parties","tag-seat-of-arbitration","tag-territorial-jurisdiction"],"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>Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Supreme Court: The bench of Ajay Rastogi and Sanjiv Khanna*, JJ has held that subsequent hearings or proceedings at a different location\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-27T09:30:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-03T05:19:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1331\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"888\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Prachi Bhardwaj\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Prachi Bhardwaj\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/\",\"name\":\"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court | SCC Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-27T09:30:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-03T05:19:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/de579aff4bc6dd24b68d6d472ac92942\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg\",\"width\":1331,\"height\":888},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"SCC Times\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/de579aff4bc6dd24b68d6d472ac92942\",\"name\":\"Prachi Bhardwaj\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Prachi-Image2-150x150.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Prachi-Image2-150x150.png\",\"caption\":\"Prachi Bhardwaj\"},\"description\":\"Senior Associate Editor\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_3\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court | SCC Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court","og_description":"Supreme Court: The bench of Ajay Rastogi and Sanjiv Khanna*, JJ has held that subsequent hearings or proceedings at a different location","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/","og_site_name":"SCC Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/","article_published_time":"2022-05-27T09:30:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-03T05:19:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1331,"height":888,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Prachi Bhardwaj","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/","name":"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court | SCC Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-27T09:30:07+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-03T05:19:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/de579aff4bc6dd24b68d6d472ac92942"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg","width":1331,"height":888},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/27\/seat-of-arbitration-change-of-venue-supreme-court-india-judgment-territorial-jurisdiction-legal-research-updates-news\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Change of venue does not result in change of the seat of arbitration; holding otherwise would create a recipe for litigation: Supreme Court"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/","name":"SCC Times","description":"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/de579aff4bc6dd24b68d6d472ac92942","name":"Prachi Bhardwaj","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Prachi-Image2-150x150.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Prachi-Image2-150x150.png","caption":"Prachi Bhardwaj"},"description":"Senior Associate Editor","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_3\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-190.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":301383,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/09\/13\/rajasthan-hc-seat-of-arbitration-has-exclusive-jurisdiction-for-applications-filed-u-s-11-of-the-ac-act-legal-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":267525,"position":0},"title":"Seat of arbitration once fixed by the arbitration agreement, has the exclusive jurisdiction for applications u\/s 11 of the A&amp;C Act, 1996: Rajasthan High Court","author":"Editor","date":"September 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cThe Court observes that the \u2018contrary indicia\u2019 is clearly reflected in the present case, because the seat was mentioned as Bikaner and venue was mentioned as New Delhi.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rajasthan high court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rajasthan-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rajasthan-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rajasthan-high-court.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rajasthan-high-court.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":302690,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/09\/30\/accrual-of-cause-of-action-substantive-legal-action-consideration-territorial-jurisdiction-dhc-legal-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":267525,"position":1},"title":"Accrual of cause of action at a place for pursuing substantive legal action, not a consideration for determining territorial jurisdiction u\/s 11 of A&amp;C Act, 1996: Delhi High Court","author":"Simranjeet","date":"September 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cAs per Clause 31.16 of Letter of Intent between parties, place of arbitration was Faridabad (Haryana), which will be chosen as the seat, since seat has not been separately named and there are no other contrary indicia to show that place of arbitration is not intended to be seat of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"delhi high court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/delhi-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/delhi-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/delhi-high-court.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/delhi-high-court.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":322374,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/05\/17\/dhc-rejects-petition-for-arbitration-due-to-lack-of-jurisdiction-legal-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":267525,"position":2},"title":"\u2018Seat of arbitration is the place where arbitral proceedings are anchored\u2019; Delhi High Court rejects petition filed u\/s 34 of Arbitration Act","author":"Editor","date":"May 17, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Delhi High Court says that the seat of the arbitration is to be determined based on arbitral proceedings and not with cause of action for underlying disputes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delhi High Court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delhi-High-Court.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":352643,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/07\/07\/dhc-on-arbitrators-discretion-to-fix-seat-of-arbitration\/","url_meta":{"origin":267525,"position":3},"title":"Arbitrator\u2019s discretion to fix venue\/seat of arbitration cannot override parties\u2019 exclusive jurisdiction clause in arbitration agreement: Delhi HC","author":"Editor","date":"July 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"When parties agree to vest exclusive jurisdiction in a particular court for any dispute arising out of the arbitration clause, it must be presumed that they intended that court only to have supervisory control.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"arbitrator's discretion seat of arbitration","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arbitrators-discretion-seat-of-arbitration.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arbitrators-discretion-seat-of-arbitration.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arbitrators-discretion-seat-of-arbitration.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arbitrators-discretion-seat-of-arbitration.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":323008,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/05\/27\/seat-versus-venue-a-damsel-distressing-domestic-arbitrations\/","url_meta":{"origin":267525,"position":4},"title":"Seat versus Venue: A Damsel Distressing Domestic Arbitrations","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"May 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Yogendra Aldak\u2020, Rashi Srivastava\u2020\u2020\u00a0and Bhavya Shukla\u2020\u2020\u2020","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Experts Corner&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Experts Corner","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/experts_corner\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Seat versus Venue","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Seat-versus-Venue.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Seat-versus-Venue.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Seat-versus-Venue.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Seat-versus-Venue.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":319795,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/04\/09\/resolving-ambiguities-exclusive-jurisdiction-vis-a-vis-seat-venue-place-of-arbitration\/","url_meta":{"origin":267525,"position":5},"title":"Resolving Ambiguities: Exclusive Jurisdiction vis-&agrave;-vis Seat, Venue and Place of Arbitration","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"April 9, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeevan Ballav Panda1 and Satish Padhi2 Cite as: 2024 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 29","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Experts Corner&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Experts Corner","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/experts_corner\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Place of Arbitration","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Place-of-Arbitration.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Place-of-Arbitration.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Place-of-Arbitration.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Place-of-Arbitration.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}