In August 2022, the Supreme Court of India decided Patil Automation Private Limited v. Rakheja Engineers Private Limited. The question in front of it sounded technical. Could a business skip the pre-institution mediatio…
On 23 October 2015, an amendment to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 took effect and changed how long a commercial dispute in India could drag on. For the first time, arbitrators had a statutory deadline to de…
On 31 July 2023, SEBI issued a circular that moved investor disputes in the securities market onto an online portal. Complaints against stock brokers and depository participants could be registered on it from 16 August …
On 14 September 2023, India's Mediation Act received the President's assent and became Act No. 32 of 2023. Most of the coverage at the time focused on pre-litigation mediation and the new Mediation Council of India. One…
A payment fails on a Sunday evening. The money leaves the account, the merchant’s screen says the transaction did not go through, and the customer care line opens on Monday. Most people in India have had some version of…
In the middle of 2020, a hearing in an Indian district court could happen with the judge at home, the advocate sitting in a parked car and the client joining on a borrowed phone. Nobody had planned for that. But once th…
