ELP Arbitration Weekly Update

In what is sure to be a judgment of far reaching consequences, the Supreme Court, in the case of Ameet Lalchand Shah and Ors. v. Rishabh Enterprises and Anr., has ruled that the principle from its earlier judgment in Chloro Controls India Pvt Ltd. v. Severn Trent Water Purification Inc., (2013) 1 SCC 641, is also applicable to domestic arbitrations. Thus, composite reference of various interconnected contracts to arbitration is now permissible in the domain of domestic arbitrations.