Covid-19 and the Extension of Period of Limitation: The Partial Undoing of ‘Complete Justice’

On 23rd March 2020, the Supreme Court had taken suo motu cognizance of the extraordinary circumstances prevailing on account of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant challenges before litigants in filing cases in courts and tribunals across the country. The Court ruled that the “period of limitation in all such proceedings, irrespective of the limitationContinue reading “Covid-19 and the Extension of Period of Limitation: The Partial Undoing of ‘Complete Justice’”

Section 34(3) and Non-est Filings: Finding the Middle Ground

[This is a Guest Post by Mansi Sood, who is a Delhi-based lawyer.] In the past year, a series of judgments by the Delhi High Court have chalked out the contours of S.34(3) of the 1996 Act in the context of non-est filings. While their pro-arbitration stance is exemplary, their inconsistency and over-enthusiastic intervention undermine anyContinue reading “Section 34(3) and Non-est Filings: Finding the Middle Ground”