Ms. Prerana Saraf, who writes at Legal Parley, has contributed this guest post on the Sowmya murder case and the recent order of the Supreme Court pertaining to Justice Katju. The guest post is reproduced below (with a few formatting changes).Govindswamy...

This post pertains to Questionnaire published by the Law Commission of India about reforming personal laws and the uniform civil code. The post is in two parts (both published in this post). The first part of the post attempts to answer...

A recent Report by the Court Fee Rationalisation Committee in Tamil Nadu has recommended that the court fee for setting aside arbitral awards be made ad valorem.  Court Fee for setting aside an arbitral award under Section 34 of the Arbitration...

The previous post in this blog dealt with the problems that beset the LL.M. programme in India. This post proposes certain solutions in addressing the problems identified therein. It may be noted that the solutions suggested are tentative and a lot...

This blog post discusses a paper titled "LL.M. in India: A Critical Review" presented by the author in a recent conference on Legal Education in in India in a Globalised World. This post discusses some of the major problems with the...

Many initial news reports about Sasan Power Ltd. v. North American Coal Corporation India Private Limited said that Supreme Court allowed Indian parties to contract out Indian law or that Indian parties could agree to a foreign seat. Later reports...

It was expected that the Supreme Court would pass several judgements on the first day of the Court after the vacations (29.06.2016). The Supreme Court did pass several decisions and twenty three of them have been uploaded onto the Court’s website....

We had done three posts on the retrospective operation of the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015:a) The blog post titled “Applicability of the 2015 Arbitration Amendment Act to Arbitration Related Court Proceedings: Part I” posted on 04.04.2016 in the Practical...

The state of commercial law in India is in doldrums. This is exemplified by a recent decision of the Supreme Court in Gangotri Enterprises v. Union of India (Civil Appeal No. 4814/2016 dt. 05.05.2016) which not only erroneous but against the...

Symposium Announcement from NLSIU is quoted as was sent (with a few formatting changes):The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR), the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce the 9th Annual...

This post is in continuation of the previous post on the applicability of the  Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015 to arbitration related court proceedings that were pending as on 22.10.2015 and those proceedings initiated on or after 23.10.2015 but in relation to...

A few months back, we had brought to the notice of the readers of this blog the legal position pertaining to the commencement of the 2015 Ordinance amending the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (see, here and  here). The Ordinance has...

IJAL's latest Call for Papers is given below:   INDIAN JOURNAL OF ARBITRATION LAW   Call for Papers The Indian Journal of Arbitration Law (IJAL) is the flagship biannual journal of the Centre for Advanced Research and Training in Arbitration...

Today, the Lok Sabha passed the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2015 in substance. However, the Minister added a new clause 25A to the Bill. The said clause deals with retrospectivity of the aforesaid amendments. It specifically provides that the amendments...

The Lok Sabha today debated the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to amend the Indian Arbitration Law. The debate began between 1700- 1800 hrs today (16.12.2015) and is likely to continue tomorrow. Prior to the debate on the aforesaid enactment,...