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Byline: Sahyaja Ms The High Court Division Bench upheld a commercial court's dismissal of the suit, ruling it did not qualify as a commercial dispute under the Commercial Courts Act, [...]

Byline: Akash Hogade Though PIMS has a positive intent to resolve commercial disputes amicably, the ground reality portrays a different picture. Pre-Institution Mediation and Settlement (PIMS) was introduced in the [...]

Byline: Bhavini Srivastava The Delhi High Court recently held that pre-institution mediation under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 is a mandatory requirement even for counter-claims in commercial [...]

Byline: Bar In the contemporary landscape of intellectual property, registered designs serve as a pivotal tool for fostering product differentiation and brand recognition. The protection of these designs safeguards the [...]

Byline: Samit Shukla Saloni Shah, Samit Shukla, Saloni Shah On April 1, 2024, a Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court (' Court ') held that Section 6 of the [...]

Byline: Tanvi Dubey, Sumit Chatterjee Advocate's Diary is a project aimed at addressing the dearth of literature on court practice and litigation advocacy. Advocate's Diary is a project aimed at [...]

Byline: Prashant Jha The Bench said that it would be wrong to proceed on presumption that an IPR suit valued at below é 3 lakh is based on ulterior motives [...]

Byline: Ashima Obhan , Anubhav Chakravorty The articles discusses the contradictive perspective of the courts regarding Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Acts 2015. Amendment to the Commercial Courts Act, [...]

Byline: Neha Joshi The Court said it would be absurd to interpret that provision of Commercial Courts Act would take within it the ambit of the exclusive jurisdiction of High [...]

Byline: Khadija Khan The Delhi High Court recently issued directions on the jurisdiction of district courts to hear Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) suits, making it clear that litigants and lawyers [...]

Byline: Arya Raje The move is pursuant to an order by Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Suraj Govindaraj which also held that the High Court alone has jurisdiction [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The discussion on the provision was prompted by the wording of Section 13 of the Commercial Courts Act, which led to contradictory court interpretations over time. [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team While terming an application in a commercial suit as 'vexatious and mischievous', the Bombay High Court (HC) imposed a cost of Rs25 lakh on the La [...]

Byline: Debayan Roy The Court was hearing an appeal against a September 9 order in which the High Court of Punjab & Haryana held that the procedure of pre-institution mediation [...]

Byline: Keshab Roy Choudhury The article revisits mandatory mediation in light of the Ganga Taro Vazirani vs. Deepak Raheja case that emphasizes on the concept of 'substantial compliance'. This article, [...]

Byline: Sahil Tagotra, Samith Sagaranahalli, Rukmini Mukherjee A summary of Judgments passed by the Supreme Court in March, 2021. The Lawyer's Digest is a collection of concise summaries of all [...]

Byline: Amer Vaid The interpretation of statutes continues to be one of the tougher subjects in a law student's curriculum. The language used in a statute is at times confusing [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The 2019 judgment in NV International v. State of Assam had said that a delay beyond 120 days for filing a Section 37 appeal cannot be [...]

Byline: Aditi Singh The Delhi High Court has ruled that the appeals against orders passed by a Commercial Court at the level of District Judge exercising original jurisdiction are to [...]

Byline: Faisal Sherwani The flaws in the commercial dispute resolution mechanism lie in the more overt issues that plague it i.e. ones that the average Indian lawyer is a bit [...]

Byline: Vipul Kumar In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been reported that the government might soon promulgate an Ordinance to suspend Sections 7, 9 and 10 of [...]

Byline: Aditi Singh The Delhi High Court has called for issuance of summons in the district courts, insofar as they concern the Commercial Courts and commercial disputes, as per timelines [...]

A Single Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising of Justice Debangsu Basak on January 9, 2020 clarified the procedure to be adopted for transfer of cases from regular Courts [...]

Byline: Aditi Singh Reiterating that condonation of delay by Court must be based on a sufficient cause, the Delhi High Court has held that condonation of delay for filing an [...]

Byline: Meera Emmanuel The Bombay High Court has issued notice in a petition challenging various provisions of the Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of the High Courts [...]

Byline: Meera Emmanuel The Delhi High recently reiterated that in trademark infringement suits, the jurisdiction of the Court can be invoked under Section 20 of the Code of Civil Procedure [...]

Byline: Ajit Warrier 'Rules of procedure are not by themselves an end, but are a means to achieve the ends of justice, and the tools forged are not intended as [...]

Byline: Murali Krishnan The Gujarat High Court has ruled that writ petitions under Article 227 of the Constitution of India can be entertained by High Court against interlocutory orders passed [...]

Byline: Shantha Chellapa & Tara Ollapally Mediation Ordinance under the Commercial Courts Act The Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Court (Amendment) Ordinance of 2018, dated [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench Ashish Kabra and Mohammad Kamran Highlights of the Amendment * Minimum Value of dispute (pecuniary jurisdiction) reduced to INR 3,00,000/- * Commercial courts split in two [...]