The government was initially mulling to promulgate an ordinance instead of introducing the arbitration bill.

The proposed Act aims to establish a flagship institution, namely Indian Arbitration Council, to conduct international and domestic arbitra...

Justice Mudgal said if an award is not made within this time period, the mandate of the arbitrators automatically terminates and an extensi...

Under the amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, an arbitrator will have to settle a case within 18 months.

Under the proposed amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, an arbitrator will have to settle a case within 18 months.

The RIL arbitration is one of the many cases which will be held up because of a slight change of nomenclature used in the ordinance.

Two ordinances aimed at creating commercial benches in select high courts and amending a law on arbitration for speedy settlement of high v...

India is placed at 186 in a ranking of 189 countries on ‘Enforcing Contracts’ in the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking.

The government today cleared two ordinances for speedy settlement of commercial disputes in the country, giving a fresh impetus to ease of ...

The ordinance had run into problems —over the cap on fees and time to dispose of the cases — from lawyers and judges who felt these were im...

Amid talk that some arbitrators were opposed to amendments proposed, Gowda had recently said that the bill will be almost the same as the d...

The minister said the government wanted to promulgate an ordinance on Arbitration Act. "But we thought this ordinance raj issue (criticism)...

The proposal assumes significance as the Narendra Modi government eyes big ticket investments in the infrastructure sector.

The development assumes significance as President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday voiced his objection to the use of 'Ordinance route' to bring ...

The government had to take the Ordinance route as it wanted the amendments to be put in place at the earliest, the official said.

According to the amendments, the presiding officer of a commercial dispute will have to clear the case within a nine-month time frame.

The govt hopes this would send a strong signal about India’s intent to improve ‘ease of doing business’ and create favourable environment t...