[Niranjan Sankar Rao is a fourth year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat] In this post, I attempt to differentiate between the approaches taken by the Bombay and Delhi High Courts on freezing injunctions. This subject has not received much certainty in commercial disputes despite its popularity in intellectual property rights infringement cases. I attempt to...
Deconstructing the Delhi High Court’s Anti-Arbitration Injunction against Vodafone UK’s BIT Arbitration
[Ritvik M. Kulkarni is Associate, Wadia Ghandy & Co., Mumbai. Views are strictly personal] The Delhi High Court (the Court) in its order dated 22nd August 2017 has passed an ex-parte interim injunction restraining Vodafone UK entities (Defendants) from initiating investment arbitration against the Union of India (UOI) under the India-UK Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) (the Order). Amidst...
Efficacy or Exclusivity: Can Parties Seek Interim Relief Outside a Seat under the Indian Arbitration Act?
[Guest post by Nishanth Vasanth, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] Introduction & Context In international arbitration, the exclusive jurisdiction of the seat seeks to prevent courts of two nations from simultaneously exercising territorial jurisdiction over a matter, so as to uphold the sanctity of the final award. Courts, under UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration...
Interim Orders of an Arbitral Tribunal: Contempt, Execution and Beyond
[Guest Post by Swastika Chakravarti, a 5th year law student at National Law University Odisha] The Indian judiciary created a unique mechanism for the enforcement of interim orders passed by an arbitral tribunal by holding that a party that does not comply with such orders can be held liable for contempt of court. The Supreme Court in the judgment of Alka Chandewar v. Shamshul Ishrar Khan (July...
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code: Arbitral Proceedings and Bona Fide Dispute
[Guest post by Puneet Dinesh, is a IV year student at the National Law University, Delhi. He can be reached at [email protected].] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the ‘Code’) has given rise to some interesting legal questions. As previously discussed on this Blog (here and here), the interpretation of the term ‘dispute’ under section 5(6) of the Code has arisen multiple times...
BALCO’s ‘Error’ Amplified: The Supreme Court in Indus Mobile – Part II
[The following post is contributed by Puneet Dinesh, who is a III year student at the National Law University, Delhi. He can be reached at [email protected]. The first part in the series can be accessed here.] In the earlier post, I had covered the First Idea that gets picked up in Indus Mobile and had argued that the Court gets the position of law correct. In this post, I will analyze the...
BALCO’s ‘Error’ Amplified: The Supreme Court in Indus Mobile – Part I
[The following post is contributed by Puneet Dinesh, who is a III year student at the National Law University, Delhi. He can be reached at [email protected].] The Supreme Court’s and the High Court’s approach to ‘arbitral seat’ vis-à-vis exclusive jurisdiction to courts has generated both controversies and analyses. The Delhi High Court (in NHPC Limited, Rohit Basin and Ion Exchange) and...
Bankruptcy Code: Exclusion of Civil Courts in Monetary Matters?
[The following post is contributed by Bhavin Gada, Partner at Economic Laws Practice, Advocates and Solicitors, and Manendra Singh, Associate Manager at Economic Laws Practice, Advocates and Solicitors. The views of authors are personal.] Preface It is well known that in India a civil court of relevant jurisdiction is the usual forum for resolving not just disputes related to debt recovery, but...
Arbitrability of Copyright Disputes
[The following guest post is contributed by Aditya Swarup, who is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School. The author would like to thank Shivprasad Swaminthan, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Angad Mehta, Advocate, for their valuable comments.] In the recently delivered judgment in Eros International Media Ltd. v. Telemax Links India Pvt. Ltd., the Bombay High Court...
The Aliakmon and Title to Sue: a recent Bombay decision
In a recent judgment, Dreymoor Fertilizers v. mvTheoforos-1, the Bombay High Court (Sriram J.) has held that a claimant, suing in tort for economic loss, must establish either legal ownership or possessory title over the relevant property at the time of loss. Without going into the correctness of the decision in the specific facts before the Court, it is respectfully submitted that some of the...
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