Teaser of my upcoming video podcast, “Navigating Commercial Disputes”, in collaboration with Bar & Bench! The debut episode features Mr. Justice Madan Lokur, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and currently serving as a Judge on the Fiji Supreme Court. I invite you to watch, enjoy, and share your thoughts. Stay tuned for…
Payal Chawla First published on Bar & Bench in 18.01.2018 and later in Mondaq on 03.01.2020 Of late, there has been the emergence of a disturbing trend whereby Indian contracting parties are choosing foreign jurisdictions to arbitrate their disputes. Resultantly, India is losing its larger domestic arbitrations, quite antithetical to the reasons for which the…
Payal Chawla Last year, the decision in the matter of Indus Mobile Distribution Pvt. Ltd v. Datawind Innovations Pvt. Ltd. [(2017) 7 SCC 678] was delivered by the Supreme Court. This decision was welcomed from the perspective of bringing quietus to the jurisdiction issue in domestic arbitration, and yet at the same time, criticized inter alia for being in the…