Tag: Civil Procedure
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Supreme Court on Mandatory Pre-Litigation Mediation in Commercial Court Cases
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil]
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Who is a Consumer? Parallel Proceedings under RERA and CPA
[Varda Saxena is a 3rd year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat] Section 2(7) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (“CPA“) mandates that a person who obtains goods for commercial purposes is not a consumer. This means that a person who obtains goods for reasons other than the sustenance of their livelihood…
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Appointment of New Arbitrators under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act
[Anujay Shrivastava is a law graduate (class of 2020) from Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Divyansha Agrawal is a practicing lawyer at the Delhi High Court and Associate with Advani and Co] In a recent order, a single judge of the Calcutta High Court in Jagdish Kishinchand Valecha v. SREI Equipment Finance Ltd. (13 April 2021)…
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Making Room for Third-party Arbitration Funding in the Indian Regime
[Oshin Malpani is a penultimate year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] Third-party arbitration funding (“TPAF”) simply stated, is the funding extended to a claimant to pursue arbitration proceedings in exchange for a portion of the award (if) granted to them. It is a subset of the general third-party funding (“TPF”) that…
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Restrictive Immunity in Enforcement of Arbitral Awards against Foreign States
[Sparsh Mallya is a 3rd Year BBA-LL. B (Hons.) Student at O.P Jindal Global University, Sonipat] On June 18, 2021, the Delhi High Court held in KLA Const. Technologies Pvt. Ltd. v. The Embassy of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (“KLA Const”) that prior consent of the Central Government under section 86 of the Civil Procedure Code (“CPC”) is not…
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Principles Governing ‘Anti-Enforcement Injunctions’ in India: Part 2
[Anujay Shrivastava is a law graduate (class of 2020) from Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. The first part in the series is available here] High Court’s Analysis The High Court recorded that injunctions of legal proceedings in foreign claims may take one of three primary forms, i.e. ASIs, AASIs and AEIs.…