Arbitration Process And Lawyers

By Author: Dheeraj Kumar
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In a recent Judgment dated 1st of March 2024, in the matter of Arif Azim Co1 , the Supreme Court of India while dealing with an Application under S.11(6) of the Act, seeking to appoint an arbitrator in a matter of International Adhoc arbitration held that the appointing Court has to consider two limitation periods one starting from the date of cause of action till the date of commencement of the arbitration and the 2nd is to be calculated from the date of commencement of Arbitration till the filing of the Section.11 application.

The purpose of the said two limitations is to check if the arbitration commenced within 3 years from the date of cause of action and also find if the application seeking arbitrator was filed within 37 months from the date of commencement of Arbitration. The Court held that there can be two types of objections that can be raised at the stage of 11 (6) of the act, “jurisdictional issues/ objections” and the 2nd objection can be issues like limitation which can be classified as “admissibility issues”.

It was further held that although, limitation is an admissibility issue, yet it ...
... is the duty of the Courts to prima-facie examine and reject the non- arbitrable or dead claims, so as to protect the other party from being drawn into a time consuming and costly arbitration process.

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