What this covers
Execution of domestic awards, enforcement of foreign awards under Part II of the Arbitration Act, resisting enforcement on public policy and other permitted grounds, and Section 34 challenges and Section 37 appeals.
How the Work Is Sequenced
The stages ADR cases move through. Timelines depend on the case.
Dispute strategy
Merits, the arbitration clause where one exists, and the realistic value of the claim reviewed together, with a candid view on whether arbitration, mediation or negotiation gives the best route to what you actually need.
Constitution or referral
Appointment of the tribunal — by agreement, institutional rules or a Section 11 application — or referral to mediation or conciliation, chosen for the forum that fits the dispute rather than the default.
Interim relief
Section 9 or Section 17 applications moved without delay where the subject matter of the dispute needs protecting before the merits are heard.
Pleadings and hearing
Statements of claim and defence, document production, witness and expert evidence, and the hearing itself, run to the tribunal's procedural timetable.
Award, settlement and after
Enforcement, or a Section 34 challenge and Section 37 appeal where the award is genuinely open to one; for a mediated outcome, consent terms drafted to be enforceable on their own.
Where It Is Heard
The courts, tribunals and regulators this work comes before.
- Ad hoc arbitral tribunals and institutional arbitration under IAMC Hyderabad, ICA, MCIA and SIAC rules
- High Court of Telangana; High Court of Andhra Pradesh; High Court of Karnataka — arbitration jurisdiction
- Supreme Court of India
- Commercial Courts — pre-institution mediation and Section 9, 34 and 37 proceedings
- Private and institutional mediation and conciliation centres