Section 21 Notice and Arbitration: Supreme Court Lowers the Procedural Guardrails
Section 21 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 has been treated as a procedural gatekeeper. The provision requires a party to serve a notice invoking arbitration before the tribunal is said to be “seized” of the dispute. In practice, lawyers and courts often treated this notice as a rigid prerequisite, sometimes weaponising its absence […]
