India: Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration

In accordance with the amended definition of the 'evidence', documentary evidence has been amended to include electronic records. The term 'electronic evidence' has been given the meaning as assigned in the IT act, which means 'data, record or data generated, image or sound stored, received or sent in an electronic form or micro file or computer generated micro fiche

The word "Evidence" is only used in Sections 244 to 246 of the Cr.P.C. / Sections 267 to 269 of BNNS and not used under Section 228 of the Cr.P.C. / Section 251 of BNNS...

Discovery under Civil Procedure means a pre-trial procedural aspect where each party is given an opportunity to obtain evidence from the opposite party or parties. The main purpose of discovery is to make the parties aware...

A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court reaffirmed the significance and persuasive value of an emergency arbitration award by upholding the interim relief granted by a single Judge and reiterating that appellate courts should only interfere when such orders are arbitrary, perverse or capricious.

In a recent decision, the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. JSIW Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. has clarified the scope of contractual interpretation and reaffirmed the limited yet crucial role of courts under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

Case Name: Gayatri Balasamy v. M/s ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited (with several connected civil appeals) arising out of S.L.P (C) Nos. 15336-15337 of 2021.

India has a well-established statutory, administrative and judicial framework for criminal trials. Indian Penal laws are primarily governed...

The Supreme Court of India, in its recent judgment in Abhishek Singh v. Ajay Kumar & Ors revisited the principles of criminal law concerning the quashing of FIRs.

Pleading comprising of a plaint and a written statement constitutes a crucial part of a civil suit. Under Rule 1 of Order VI of the Civil Procedure Code...

In an era marked by globalization and economic integration, India stands as a beacon for foreign investors seeking lucrative opportunities.

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The intricacies involving the principle of sovereign immunity from the lens of enforcement in arbitral proceedings have been dealt for the first time by the Hon'ble Delhi High Court...