[Anshuman Chowdhury is a 5th year BBA, LL.B.(Hons.) Student of National Law University Odisha] In a recent judgment in Inox Wind Ltd v Thermocables Ltd (“Inox Wind”) judgement, the Supreme Court held that “a general reference to a standard form of contract of one party will be enough for incorporation of arbitration clause”. This was apparently an expansion of the scope of reference for...
Press Note 1 of 2018: Revision of the FDI Regime
[Amitabh Robin Singh is a corporate lawyer practising in Mumbai] The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has issued Press Note 1 of 2018 dated January 23, 2018 (“PN 1”), which liberalizes the foreign direct investment (“FDI”) regime across various sectors. However, I would like to open this post by not discussing a particular sector, but with the language that concludes PN 1. There has...
A Curious Case of ‘Public Interest’ in Indian Corporate Law
[Abhijeet Singh Rawaley is a Bar Council of India Trust Scholar and a III Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) Candidate at NALSAR, Hyderabad With inputs from Shreenath A. Khemka, a King’s Law Scholar pursuing an LLM at the University of Cambridge] This post comments on section 396 of the [Indian] Companies Act, 1956 (carried forward as section 237 in the Companies Act, 2013). The comment critiques the...
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