An award that is “prima facie void ab initio” is the Bench’s own phrase, used in framing a question at the notice stage, for an arbitral award published a day after the President signed the arbitrator’s warrant of appointment as an Additional Judge of the Calcutta High Court; the award is stayed, and the Supreme […]
Two awards, one passed in 2004 and the other in 2016: the Supreme Court has slammed the Centre for stalling the Vedanta arbitral awards, and dismissed its appeal against a Delhi High Court judgment allowing their enforcement. New Delhi: The Union’s appeal against enforcement of the Vedanta arbitral awards has failed. The Supreme Court on […]
Axis Bank itself conceded that awards by unilaterally appointed sole arbitrators are void. The Delhi High Court has now declared an award against a borrower unenforceable, noting that one bank-appointed arbitrator had handled 4,155 arbitrations over four to five years, and has asked the RBI to caution all banks on unilateral appointments. New Delhi: Declaring […]
The Delhi High Court has held Mohit Singh, erstwhile Managing Director of Shipra Estate Limited, guilty of civil contempt for breaching a court undertaking to pay Rs 3.20 crore and for an incorrect status quo statement on flats that had already been sold. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has held Mohit Singh guilty of […]
A Division Bench of the Patna High Court held that a 2018 notification appointing Divisional Commissioners as arbitrators under the National Highways Act operates prospectively and does not affect pending arbitrations, but set aside an award on Gaya land acquired for NH-82 and ordered compensation reassessed with solatium and interest under the 1894 Act.
Justice Lapita Banerji of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has called for a status report from the District Judge, Sri Muktsar Sahib, explaining an anomaly in an August 19, 2026 order in execution proceedings against judgment debtors, including the recording of a High Court stay order that the award holder says was never passed, and has listed the civil revision on November 30, 2026.
The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh on counsel for the decree holders in proceedings to enforce an arbitral award against NHAI, for appearing in a virtual hearing from a moving car, holding that this violates the Court’s Electronic Evidence and Video Conferencing Rules, 2025 and disrupts proceedings.