Supreme Court clarifies the Scope of Pre-referral Jurisdiction under the Arbitration Act.

Recently, the Supreme Court of India upheld that an application for setting aside an arbitral award under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, must be filed within the prescribed period of limitation i.e. 90 +30 days. The judgment sets a strict reminder that timelines for filing a challenge to an arbitral award are sacrosanct - even days on which the courts are closed will not be excluded while calculating the limitation period.

Welcome to the Dispute Resolution podcast of Nishith Desai Associates. In this podcast Vyapak Desai and Shweta Sahu discuss the law around 'without prejudice' privilege and it's implications during the disputes and pre-disputes stage.