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The original version of this article was first published in the Trilegal Quarterly Roundup Key Developments Supreme Court rules that clauses allowing a party to mandate other party to select arbitrators only from a panel curated by it are invalid In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has held that arbitration clauses in contracts where one party is mandated to appoint an arbitrator from a panel curated by the counterparty are inherently exclusionary and violate the principle of equal...

The original version of this article was first published in the Trilegal Quarterly Roundup Key Developments 1. Supreme Court clarifies that a party’s failure to attend arbitral proceedings does not amount to abandonment of its claim The Supreme Court issued a significant ruling clarifying that a party’s failure to appear before the arbitrator is not a ground for terminating arbitration proceedings under Section 32(2)(c) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Arbitration Act).

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